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Physics can be discriminated from other scientific disciplines by its pursuit toward fundamental and universal knowledge. Unlike other majors defined on the basis of the objects of study, physics continually seeks to develop general and rigorous conceptual frameworks in which the structure and dynamics of a system can be quantitatively described from the interactions among the "building blocks" at various abstraction levels. As such, the origin and evolution of the universe, the nature of light, material properties of condensed matter and the molecular mechanism of life, each being in itself an independent discipline, have naturally arisen from and been incorporated into the fundamental formulation of physics. With the current technological advances in atomic and molecular imaging and analysis, rapid increase in computing power and accumulation of large-scale empirical data, a "convergence" among scientific disciplines is occurring at an unprecedentedly rapid pace. To keep up with this Read more