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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2083087" data-attributes="member: 2205">True, but in modern cultures and study there is.  So when you say physics, people don't think of physics the way Medieval man did, they think of forumalae they learned in high school for calculating force = mass * acceleration, or how to compute the trajectory of a thrown object, or some such.  In my experience, most gamers don't care too much about that as long as the rules don't aggregiously break their expectations of what will happen from a physics point of view.On the other hand, I think more gamers, curiously, are interested in the implications of "what if the world really is made of four elements; earth, fire, water and air, for instance.  However, he's probably not thoroughly versed in Medieval philosophy (I'm certainly not, for instance) and he probably thinks, "hey, back then and now we have these vastly different theories on the nature of the universe, but didn't we both have essentially the same set of observations on which to make that judgement, i.e., the natural consequences of doing something were pretty much the same as then, with the exception that we now have better ways of correllating and observing those same consequences."  In other words, does it really make much difference at the end of the day if the world is really made of four elements instead of 100+ some odd that the periodic table shows.</blockquote>