who is considered as the father of physics?

Question

first learn these basics in physics

Answer 1

Hello David,
According to my knowledge Thale of Miletus is considered as father of physics.
Thales predicted the eclipse of the sun.Among the scientific activities ascribed by Thales are the construction of an almanac and introduction of phoenician practice of steering of a ship's course by the Little Bear.In his metaphysics,Aristotle assets tht according to Thales the earth is superimposed upon water.Most importantly,Thalesdeclared the primary stuff of all things to be water.This is the only certain and really important things as varying forms of one primary and ultimate element.That he assigns water as this element is merely intresting.
He earned his place of FATHER from the fact that he conceives the notion of unity in difference,and endeavours to account for the evident diversity of the many.

Answer 2

Galileo and Newton were both very important to classical mechanics. Men like Faraday, Ampere, and Coulomb are important in electromagnetism. In modern physics, you have to look to Einstein, Curie, and a number of others.

I would say that Newton is probably the "father" of physics, because Newton defined the idea of force and how it acts on matter.

Answer 3

While many philosophers studied physics long before the 17th century, Isaac Newton basically invented every equation we use in classical mechanics (physics before relativity/quantum mechanics).

Answer 4

Aristotle, of course, even if nobody named him officially. He laid down the beliefs of science, and even if he was wrong, like saying the earth is the centre of the Universe, which is what all mankind believed before Galileo decided otherwise, (citing Copernicus before him), Aristotle had a reason for the belief. He saw that there was no parallax among the stars, meaning they had no relative shift.

Like a person on a carousel who sees houses around it as fixed objects, but that keep rotating out of sight, the earth looks at stars around it which are all fixed in place, with only a few wandering (planets).

If the earth were moving, it would be like taking a bus ride. The lamp-posts whiz by because they are so near, and the houses move by pretty quickly too, but the hills seen far away hardly move in your view. The relative shift is called parallax shift.
We would expect to see stars doing this -- the nearer ones go past quickly and the rest more slowly. From earth, there is no parallax shift in the stars because they are so far away. It is like taking a bus ride where there are only mountains far, far away to look at. No nearby scenery. All the mountains have no parallax shift but seem to be stuck together.

How was Aristotle to know the stars were so far away? But he had a view based on reason.

The Pope in Galileo's time was defending Aristotle and maybe his own religious views. It was NOT a Church teaching that the earth is the centre of the Universe. Luckily he banned Galileo from spouting his views because Galileo had concluded that, not only the earth is not the centre of the Universe, BUT THE SUN WAS !!! The Great Man was wrong too!!! So much for the title Father of Physics for Galileo. He was stubborn and arrogant and he was placed under house arrest mainly because he insulted the Pope personally by making him seem to be a fool in public.

Newton is someone we owe a lot to as well, but there were so many physicists before him, that one hesitates to call him the Father of Physics. He contributed a lot, but on the subatomic level and in the quantum stage, most of or all his laws don't hold anymore.

If a guy is Father of a Scientific Field, he should be the guy who Started All Studies in that field. Like Gregor Mendel, the monk, was the Father of Genetics, because of his observations regarding peas which were round, wrinkled, yellow or green. This started off the science of inheritance of traits passed down from generation to generation.

We can also think of Max Planck as the one who started the study of quantum theory because by chance, studying black body radiation, he suggested that something he wrote in an equation could be a packet of energy that depending on the frequency of the electromagnetic radiation. He didn't say anything beyond that. So is he the Father of Quantum Physics?

Einstein picked it up from there to prove what happens in Photoelectricity, for which he got his Nobel Prize (and not for his Theory of Relativity, which nobody could prove or understand and hence couldn't award him a prize for it!) After this, Einstein was unnerved by the discoveries of quantum physics, because he said dogmatically that "God does not play dice with the Universe" and so many things seem to prove that God does!

Is Einstein the Father of Modern Physics? There are too many contenders for that title: Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Bohr...

Physics is such a broad category, that it is impossible really to find one man who "started it all" in the area of studying matter and energy, which is what Physics is. Aristotle is just my choice as a person who used the scientific method of thinking and testing, even if he wasn't right all the time.

Answer 5

Sir Isaac Newton of course

Answer 6

He found gravity. He defined gravity and he helped the world realize much forces. His famous 3 Newton Laws which are: Newton's 1st law, Newton's 2nd law, Newton's 3rd law.

Answer 7

Newton is the first name that comes to my mind

Answer 8

It is most definetly Galileo Galilei.

Answer 9

Galeleo - he was a 1,000 years ahead of his time.

Answer 10

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