Where would we be without our tech?

We’d be doing homework on paper instead of computers. We’d be sending texts via carrier pigeon instead of smart phones. We’d ride to school on horses instead of cars. Even simple things like wheels and door knobs are technology. Without physics, we’d have very little of it.

Technology is our knowledge of how the universe works put to use as a device that completes a task, or several tasks. Every law of physics ever discovered has led to dozens of technologies we take for granted today.

We watch movies and online videos through screens that are only possible because we explored the world of physics, particularly the world of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics explains how the tiniest things in our universe behave, allowing us to predict how electrons will act. It’s those electrons that create the image on a screen.

Refrigerators are all about moving heat, which is the very definition of thermodynamics, which just happens to be another branch of physics. Without understanding how heat works, inventing such a thing would be impossible and we’d be hunting our every meal.

There are many (many, many, many) more examples we could list, but we’re more excited about the inventions that haven’t been invented, yet. We’ll bet our bottom dollar that the coolest inventions of the future will have a physics element to it, so bring on the light sabers.