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Physics vs Spirituality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between physics and spirituality

is that physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy or physics can be while spirituality is the quality or state of being spiritual.

As a verb physics

is (physic).

physics

English

(wikipedia physics)

Alternative forms

* physicks (obsolete)

Noun

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  • The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
    Newtonian physics''' was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum '''physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
  • Of or pertaining to the physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied in physics.
    • The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * physical * physicist

    Derived terms

    * aerophysics * astrophysics * attophysics * biophysics * cartoon physics * chemical physics * classical physics * econophysics * ecophysics * gastrophysics * geophysics * heliophysics * macrophysics * metametaphysics * metaphysics * microphysics * modern physics * neurophysics * nonphysics * nuclear physics * particle physics * pataphysics * petrophysics * photophysics * psychophysics * quantum biophysics * quantum physics * radiation physics * radiophysics * sociophysics * soil physics * tectonophysics * theoretical physics

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (physic)

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    spirituality

    English

    (wikipedia spirituality)

    Noun

    (spiritualities)
  • The quality or state of being spiritual.
    • A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality . — South.
    If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality . — Sir Walter Raleigh.
    Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. — Bickersteth.
  • Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
  • Appreciation for religious values.
  • (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
    • During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. — Blackstone.
  • (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
    • Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality . — Fuller.