What is physics? The story of the Universe, the story of everything. The story of the earth and the elements and the stars. Everything, from the smallest atoms to the stars sprawling endlesly in the sky, is dictated by a few rules, ratios, and constants. Maxwell's Equations, the Golden Ratio, Euler's number, Newton's laws — these all hold the world in a celestial harmony that make life possible. When you understand them, you can't help seeing them all around you; and understanding their beauty, you're more grateful to be alive. :)
Most of this website is about art, but physics is much like art, in a way. Both explore a part of the world — physics its outer aspect, art its inner one. Both are also about seeing the world in new, deeper ways. Just as artists dissect love, war, God, and their countries, physicists examine stars, elements, and therodynamics. Just as artists seek what unites us all as humans, physicists seek equations that unite all things.
This meme is hardly even a joke. The more you understand the language that constructs this world, the more you're able to manipulate it for your own purposes, in ways which seem almost magical, but are really proven by science. For example, have you heard of "vomit comets"? These are airplanes inside which zero-gravity circumstances are simulated — their passengers just float around. Or antiparticles — versions of neutrons, protons and so on with reversed properties. They compromise antimatter, and when anything touches its antimatter version, no matter how tough it is, it instantly dissolves in a flash of light. And of course there are black holes, the Big Bang, collapsing stars, nuclear fusion...
