Physics is the study of nature and reality,
Concerning existence and substance.
It ultimately asks: what is there in nature
and what are its properties?

Metaphysics is the study of ideas and actuality,
Concerning patterns and signifiers.
It ultimately asks: what is there, what is it like?

'Pataphysics is the study of the insignificable and unreality,
Concerning contradictions and exceptions.
It ultimately asks: what is?