Individuals who are interested in creativity can learn quite a bit from physics. This is especially true because physics has several idiosyncrasies, making it unique in various ways, which is exactly what would be expected given the domain differences so often associated with creativity. This chapter examines physics and creativity. It begins by looking to research on famous physicists, including Albert Einstein, Pauli, and Michael Faraday. It also examines how the creative process, as described in theories of creativity maps, onto the work of physics. It then employs a meta-creative tactic, and in particular a consideration of the opposite perspective. If it is useful to examine how creativity theory applies to physics, what about how physics contributes to creativity theory? This idea offers information about the ways physics has changed how creativity is viewed and defined. Cognitive hyperspace is given as an example. This chapter therefore acknowledges bidirectionality, with material devoted to creativity contributing to physics, but also physics contributing to creativity.
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Runco, M. A. (2020). Physics. In Manual of Evidence-Based Admitting Orders and Therapeutics (pp. 356–359). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.23859-5
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