So I've heard Gundam has some really deep physics lore that

It's best explained in part of G Gundam.
I'm spoiling it a bit, but it all boils down to devil gundam cells.

Start by becoming a scientist and ripping off Gundam in real life.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-06-29/researchers-discover-safer-earth-re-entry-thanks-to-gundam/.118082

Read up on Minovsky physics.

>>15666927
Except that's a load of shit, since ballutes have been in use since the 1950s. They were on the Gemini spacecraft, for fuck's sake. All these people going "look, it's just like in Zeta Gundam, they must have been inspired by it" are ignoring the fact that Gundam itself took a lot of inspiration from real world aerospace technology.

>>15666924
It's actually pretty interesting. The "Minovsky particle" is a fictional particle more or less identical to the muon but without the cripplingly short half-life. As such, all the cool things you can do with muons under laboratory conditions are actually practical in the world of Mobile Suit Gundam. The most basic one is Minovsky-catalyzed fusion, Minovsky particles take the place of electrons in a dense plasma and, being more massive than electrons, allow the atoms to get closer together and fuse more easily. That's what powers mobile suits. Another application that's fundamental to mobile suit combat is M-particle lattices, which screen out electromagnetic radiation of certain wavelengths and make long-distance communication and detection very difficult. That's why mobile suits aren't shot down by guided missiles like you'd expect from such huge targets. It's all actually pretty detailed, the Gundam wiki has a pretty nice article on it.

>>15666924
>So I've heard Gundam has some really deep physics lore
someone lied to you.
I like Gundam but its physics aren't that deep.
The most complex stuff are the particles that each series introduces to create a need for MS, some series go more in depth than others, but the U is fairly developed since its the longest running.
Just don't expect anything on the level of actually realistic physics with equations and stuff.

Why do people care about this kind of things in these works anyway?

>>15669461
muh immersion

>>15669461
It's fun.

>>15669461
Same reason I assume people like full fledged science fiction, i assume.

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>>15666927
>Start by becoming a scientist and ripping off Gundam in real life.

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>>15666927
>Once deployed, EGG slowed down and landed on Earth approximately three months after starting its initial descent.