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Welcome to physics, the science of relativity and gravitation, matter and energy, quarks and quanta, lasers and masers, and many other intriguing scientific areas.
Since the appearance of the second edition many new developments have become impor- tant, and this edition has been expanded to include as many as possible of these new ideas without neglecting older, but still valid, concepts.

Welcome to physics, the science of relativity and gravitation, matter and energy, quarks and quanta, lasers and masers, and many other intriguing scientific areas.

This encyclopedia will be an essential resource for our times, reflecting the fact that we currently are living in an expanding data-driven world. Technological advancements and other related trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and exponentially increasing collection of data and information, referred to in popular vernacular as “Big Data.” Social media and crowdsourcing platforms and various applications ― “apps” ― are producing reams of information from the instantaneous transactions and input of millions and millions of people around the globe. The Internet-of-Things (IoT), which is expected to comprise tens of billions of objects by the end of this decade, is actively sensing real-time intelligence on nearly every aspect of our lives and environment.