I’m starting to feel that the modern "Fizik" is losing the plot. We have become coders. We run simulations. We fit curves. We don't feel the physics anymore.
We throw the term around a lot. “I’m a physics guy.” “That’s just fiziki.” But every few years, I find myself sitting at 2 AM, staring at the ceiling, trying to truly grasp what fiziki (физики) means beyond the equations on a whiteboard. fiziki
Think about Feynman (drawing, bongo drums). Think about Kapitsa (his letters home are pure literature). The act of doing physics is not mechanical. To propose a new law of nature requires imagination —the same imagination Pushkin used to write Eugene Onegin . I’m starting to feel that the modern "Fizik"