Questions you were afraid to ask. Come with your repressed questions about the physical world. Edwin Taylor, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will solicit everyone's questions, admit which ones he cannot answer, and use the remaining questions to compose and deliver a talk on the spot. Nature shouts at the electron. This three-word command leads to most of quantum mechanics with very little mathematics.
Nature shouts at the stone.
This two-word command leads to big chunks of general relativity, with no tensors. These two commands of Nature frame a second course in physics called The Boundaries of Nature being taught at MIT to a class that is half non-physics majors. In the last few decades, the availability of powerful computers has changed the practice of physics. This only begins to make use of a distinctly computational way of thinking. For example, some basic problems in statistical physics involve concepts of randomness and algorithmic complexity.