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Unit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.45.56.159 ( talk) 12:25, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
This is misleading, & doesn't belong in the intro. Crosleybendix ( talk) 17:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
As a physicist at university thirty years ago I know that the the term "Modern Physics" used to be reserved for physics that started with "Quantum Physics". "The theory of relativity" and "Nuclear Physics" both belonged to "Classical Physics". I am aware that this does seem to be the way the term is used by most people outside university, but is there anyone that has a reference to this distinction changing inside the university sphere?
I did a spurious google, and all the university references I found confirm the older usage. If the distinction still holds within the universities, should we not try to uphold that distinction here? DanielDemaret 09:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
A week ago this page effectively acted as a disambiguation page, pointing to the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. The recent changes don't seem entirely helpful, as the page now says a little about black body radiation, and then contains the intro to a 1955 book (which could surely still be in copyright?). In a wider sense, I don't see what the point of this article is - if someone talks about "modern physics", they're either trying to draw a distinction from the older classical physics, or they're talking about the revolutions in physics that occurred in the first part of the last century, or they're talking about physics research in the present day. All of these topics are much better covered in their own articles, so why not keep this article as a pointer to others, rather than try to make it an article on its own? Djr32 ( talk) 22:36, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
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