This is Jim Clarage. I teach physics at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. My blog started as the “astronomy and wine blog.” But the astronomy posts wandered to other areas of physics and science, and the wine posts (or rather the wine itself?) led more generally towards that outside the logical, and the dry.
So I guess the name is a play off the old dipole of “faith and reason,” or “left and right brain” to use our modern categories. The word physics derives from Aristotle’s book on nature, which in Greek was referred to as physic (Latin physica). Fides is Latin for “faith” (loosely of course as we can translate words and symbols between eras and languages.)
The point is to mix in both sides of experience, whatever you call them. And hope the cocktail is good.
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