He saw in Merce's work the beautiful language of physics translated into a physical-experiential reality.
It is also not clear how mental events, when thought of as not describable in the language of physics, can be held to interact with events describable in physical language.
Although the predicate 'hurricane' is not equivalent to any single description using the language of physics, we believe that each individual hurricane is nothing but a collection of physical atoms behaving in a certain way: one need have no more than the physical atoms, with their normal physical properties, following normal physical laws, for there to be a hurricane.
Mathematics is, after all, the language of physics.
In The Goldbug Variations he attempts an extraordinary synthesis of languages - the language of physics, the language of the genome and the language of music.
The term particle is firmly embedded in the language of physics, yet a precise definition has become harder as more is learned.
When I was a physics and chemistry teacher in a science high school, I found that most students, except for the few brightest, were not ready to handle the mathematical language of physics early in their high school careers.
This was the basic idea of his "physicalism," according to which all terms and statements of empirical science from the physical to the social and historical disciplines can be reduced to terms and statements in the language of physics.
An extreme position is taken by the logical positivists, whose radical distrust of the reality of anything not directly observable leads them to demand that all significant statements must be formulated in the language of physics.
In most of the twentieth century, physics played the role of super-science, and physics is, by its nature, accommodating of God: the theories of physics are so cosmic that the language of physics can persist without actively insulting the language of faith.
