History and Philosophy of PhysicsThat got me thinking, if I could combine the ideas of sequences and series, with permutations and combinations, to design more complex sequences, which might potentially open up new approaches and studies in the field.

This brief history and philosophy of physics has been written to give physics students someappreciation of where their discipline has come from, and of the philosophical principlesunderpinning it. It is hoped that this will provide students with a sense of physics as a living,evolving discipline, and of their place in its evolution. Physics, indeed all of science, is not astatic agglomeration of proven facts and inviolable theories. While there are many theories whichare so well tried that they are generally accepted as being correct, all scientific theories are stillopen to attack from some new, reproducible experiment which disagrees with them. The history below bears this out.