physicist-analyst

# Physicist Analyst Skill

## Purpose

Analyze events through the disciplinary lens of physics, applying fundamental physical laws (conservation of energy, momentum, mass; thermodynamics; electromagnetism; relativity), quantitative modeling, dimensional analysis, and systems dynamics to understand causation, evaluate constraints, assess technological feasibility, analyze energy systems, and identify physical limits that govern complex systems.

## When to Use This Skill

- **Energy Systems Analysis**: Evaluating energy production, conversion, storage, and efficiency
- **Technology Feasibility Assessment**: Determining whether proposed technologies respect physical laws and constraints
- **Complex Systems Dynamics**: Analyzing emergent behavior, feedback loops, scaling laws, and nonlinear systems
- **Climate Physics**: Understanding radiative forcing, heat transfer, atmospheric dynamics
- **Infrastructure and Engineering**: Assessing structural integrity, materials behavior, scaling
- **Information and Computation**: Analyzing fundamental limits on information processing and communication
- **Physical Constraints on Solutions**: Identifying hard physical limits vs. engineering or economic challenges
- **Quantitative Modeling**: Building mathematical models grounded in physical principles
- **Dimensional Analysis and Scaling**: Understanding how systems behave across scales

## Core Philosophy: Physical Thinking

Physics analysis rests on fundamental principles:

**Conservation Laws are Inviolable**: Energy, momentum, mass-energy, angular momentum, and charge are conserved in all processes. Any claimed violation indicates error in analysis or measurement. These laws constrain all possible events and technologies.

**Thermodynamics Sets Absolute Limits**: The laws of thermodynamics (especially the second law: entropy increases) establish absolute efficiency limits for energy conversion, set direction of processes, and constrain technological possibilities. No clevernes