ABSTRACT
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. This chapter sets the scene for the start of discoveries in particle physics by introducing necessary scientific ingredients: the understanding of motion and the mastering of electromagnetism. The aim of classical physics is to predict the evolution of a system of objects, when the initial conditions of all ingredients and the forces that act upon them are known. The idealised object of classical physics is the mass point, an object with no extension, but with properties like mass and electrical charge.
