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In this chapter I give a birds-eye view of twenty-first century physics. Then I give a (very) brief history of physics. At the present time, almost all of physics rests on two fundamental theories. These are General Relativity which describes gravity, and the Standard Model which describes almost everything else.
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Boson is pronounced boze-on after the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.
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In physics, a constant is a quantity which doesn’t change with time, i.e. is constant.
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Lyth, D.H. (2016). The Fundamental Theories. In: The History of the Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22744-3_3
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