Physics Forums
Physics Forums is a question and answer Internet forum that allows users to ask, answer and comment on grade-school through graduate-level science questions. In addition, Physics Forums hosts the Insights Blog which is a collaborative blog sourced from verified experts on the community. Authors of scientific papers have used Physics Forums to write popular explanations of their research. In turn, this forum entries have been referenced by popular science news websites. Notable members and blog authors past and present include John C. Baez, Urs Schreiber, Antony Garrett Lisi. Physics Forums entries have also been cited in scientific papers.
Type of site | Question and answer |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | USA |
| Owner | Greg Bernhardt |
| URL | www.physicsforums.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 200,000 |
| Launched | 2001 |
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Physics Forums is a question and answer Internet forum that allows users to ask, answer and comment on grade-school through graduate-level science questions. In addition, Physics Forums hosts the Insights Blog which is a collaborative blog sourced from verified experts on the community.
Authors of scientific papers have used Physics Forums to write popular explanations of their research. In turn, this forum entries have been referenced by popular science news websites.[1][2][3] Notable members and blog authors past and present include John C. Baez,[4] Urs Schreiber,[5] Antony Garrett Lisi.[6] Physics Forums entries have also been cited in scientific papers.[7][8][9]
History
[edit]Physics Forums was started as a school project in the spring of 2001 by Greg Bernhardt.[10][non-primary source needed]
Physics Forums entered content partnerships with Scientific American magazine in 2005.[11]
In 2025, two writers on the blog "Hall of Impossible Dreams" wrote that Physics Forums had been using large language models to generate content, posting it via abandoned user accounts. They wrote that some posts were backdated by over a decade, creating the false impression that the posts were written by humans.[12][better source needed]
Awards
[edit]Physics Forums won the 2010 "People's Choice" award for best Q&A online physics community by physics.org.[13]
As of 2023, Physics Forums is ranked 8th on "Aelieve's List of 20 Best Physics Websites".[14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Main, Douglas (2015-09-14). "Bubble Implosions Create Heat of Four Suns, Study Says". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ "Physicists Find That Animals' Top Speeds Are Proportional to Body Length". Mental Floss. 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ "It's Body Length, Not Mass, That Lets the Cheetah Run So Fast". Gizmodo. 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ "John Baez's Stuff". math.ucr.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ "Urs Profile". ncatlab.
- ^ "Garrett Lisi's Superparticle Bet With Frank Wilczek | Physics Forums". Physics Forums Insights. July 10, 2015.
- ^ Dorsch, Gláuber Carvalho; Guio, Thaisa Carneiro da Cunha (2021-06-28). "Física de Partículas no ensino médio Parte I: Eletrodinâmica Quântica". Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (in Portuguese). 43: e20210083. arXiv:2103.04946. doi:10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2021-0083. ISSN 1806-1117.
- ^ Guio, Thaisa C. da C.; Dorsch, Gláuber C. (2023). "Particle Physics in High School Part II: Nuclear Physics". Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física. 45: e20230067. arXiv:2303.10296. doi:10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2023-0067. ISSN 1806-9126.
- ^ Shuler, Robert L (2016). "'Leading clocks lag' and the de Broglie wavelength". Physics Education. 51 (2) 025005. doi:10.1088/0031-9120/51/2/025005. ISSN 0031-9120. S2CID 124664840.
- ^ "Greg Bernhardt: SEO and Physics Forums Founder". Home for Greg Bernhardt Copyright 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ "Scientific American: Partner Network Directory". Scientific American. 2008-09-12. Archived from the original on 2008-09-12.
- ^ "PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory". Hall of Impossible Dreams.
- ^ Koerth, Maggie (2010-11-15). "The best physics websites". boingboing.net. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ "Website Rankings For The Best Physics Websites". aelieve.com. December 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-22.