Talk:Physical property

message: I noticed that 'shininess' was listed as a physical property. Would albedo be a better choice?
Additionally, could 'scattering light' be replaced with refraction
--69.134.204.227 (talk) 21:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: luster is refered to in chemistry text books and refers to  textural quality or appearance.  Reflectivity is the measure of the total amount of light reflected from the surface.  Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 08:35, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: shininess

message: a physical property is not based on the amount of the substance.
mass, volume, temperature, and shape are not properties...
properties are characteristics that allow chemists to distinguish and organize between substances.
physical properties include:
density, melting point, boiling point, hardness, ductility, malleability, shine, structure (crystaline), and color
(I believe that there are more, but I can't remember them at this time)
...nice work though
74.237.244.61 01:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ummm....slight adjustment to your thought 

message: As mentioned above, albedo deserves adding, it is a property of objects used in astronomy: planets have albedo, it is a measure of how much they reflect light (e.g. the sun's). Albedo is a special case of reflectivity so I added that too. Diffraction and scattering are processes rather than properties, so don't think they should be added. Puzl bustr (talk) 10:35, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What about refraction, absorbtion, resonance?  These are all valid properties as long as they are intrinsic to the material.  If the internal (crystaline) structure causes marked scattering or diffraction then why not? Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 08:44, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added [[albedo]] and [[reflectivity]] as properties of objects 

message: The first section makes useful definitions and statements clarifying what the article is about, but it doesn't provide any references. Could I request that the contributors add (preferrably inline) references. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia: other (good) physics articles have such references. In particular an article without references attracts a bot:
Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)
in double square brackets. To improve this article beyond stub class we'd need references. It is well-written from my POV.Puzl bustr (talk) 10:49, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No references 

message: Isn't energy a physical property? This is asserted in the wikipedia page about Energy, yet it is not in the list of physical properties.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odysnes (talk • contribs) 14:33, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Energy 

message: The article reads:
The changes in the physical properties of a system can be used to describe its transformations or evolutions between its momentary states.
Please change from the above, "Its transformations or evolutions" to "Its transformations and modulations"
Explanation:
In the above sentence the term evolution in its current modern usage is not consistent with the nature of the subject.  A Physical property is a consistent and measured behavior of an atom, element, chemical, molecule... The changes in matter never alter the default state or its properties and behaviors. While matter can be modified, modulate, or altered these changes are always consistent based upon the characteristic properties of the object and the forces of its environment and those that are acted upon it.
While the element Hydrogen can interact with other elements modulating into new arrangements.  Hydrogen is a basic state of matter and always has the exact same properties in a given environment. Hydrogen will never go extinct and will always be the same.  
Things that evolve, do not go Backwards to a lesser state. In biological evolutionary theory, a biological cell, organ, organ system or being never Un evolves into its base or default state. Whereas in the case of the properties of matter certain forces can cause matter to become more complex or return to its default state. In the Evolutionary model this does not occur and clearly this does occur in the Properties of matter as Water is converted to hydrogen to fuel vehicles via the conversion to electricity.  
Reference pertaining to the Scientific study of the Modulation of Matter:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00135 Dabbatrios (talk) 18:18, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That looks like a very narrow use of “modulation” which is scarcely relevant to this article. The meanings of “evolution” are not limited to the biological sense. Also see shibboleth. Just plain Bill (talk) 20:11, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Partly done: Copy-edited to simplify text and both remove redundancy and improve parallelism.  Transformations, modulations, and evolutions here simply mean "changes".  Mixing biological concepts of "evolution" with usages of that term in non-biological contexts like this just increases confusion and hurts reader understanding.  Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:17, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 March 2018