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WHO DISCOVERED PHYSICS
 Physics is a human creation to interpret some phenomena of nature and so it was invented, not discovered. You might be a little disappointed at the answer: Nobody invented physics. It has evolved over thousands of years, though it only became more scientific/rigorous in the last 500 years or so.As long as there were people, they wondered why things happened the way they did, and what would happen if they tried other things. Well, that's all that scientists do. You can imagine a caveman noticing that fire is hot, and that rubbing two sticks together made them warm; he might ask himself, "could I make fire by rubbing those stick together really hard?" That caveman was being a physicist, and when he tried rubbing sticks together, he was doing an experiment. Some of them made the biggest and most important discoveries in science. For instance, you might have heard of the ancient Greek scientist Aritstotle, who tried to explain the way things move. Another ancient Greek was Archimedes, who invented and explained many simple machines, like levers and pumps. Several hundred years ago, Galileo and Newton both discovered important laws about gravity. In this century, probably the most famous scientist was Albert Einstein ,his "Theory of Relativity" talks about all the strange things that happen when you're moving almost as fast as light, and a lot of other cool stuff. 


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