Organization:Physics Forums

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Short description: Physics question-and-answer website
Physics Forums
Type of site
Question and answer
HeadquartersUSA
OwnerGreg Bernhardt
Websitewww.physicsforums.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users200,000
Launched2001; 25 years ago (2001)

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

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]

Awards

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

References

  1. ↑ Main, Douglas (2015-09-14). "Bubble Implosions Create Heat of Four Suns, Study Says" (in en). https://www.newsweek.com/bubble-implosions-create-heat-four-suns-372155. 
  2. ↑ "Physicists Find That Animals' Top Speeds Are Proportional to Body Length" (in en-US). 2015-10-20. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70111/physicists-find-animals-top-speeds-are-proportional-body-length. 
  3. ↑ "It's Body Length, Not Mass, That Lets the Cheetah Run So Fast" (in en). 2015-10-23. https://gizmodo.com/its-body-length-not-mass-that-lets-the-cheetah-run-so-1737690204. 
  4. ↑ "John Baez's Stuff". https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/#:~:text=Learn%20a%20bit%20about%20quantum%20gravity,%20n-categories,%20crackpots%20and%20climate%20change%20in%20my%20interview%20on%20Physics%20Forums.. 
  5. ↑ "Urs Profile". https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber#:~:text=is%20here.-,9.%20column,-I%20used%20to. 
  6. ↑ "Garrett Lisi's Superparticle Bet With Frank Wilczek | Physics Forums". July 10, 2015. https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/superparticle-bet-frank-wilczek/. 
  7. ↑ Dorsch, Gláuber Carvalho; Guio, Thaisa Carneiro da Cunha (2021-06-28). "Física de Partículas no ensino médio Parte I: Eletrodinâmica Quântica" (in pt). Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física 43: e20210083. doi:10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2021-0083. ISSN 1806-1117. https://www.scielo.br/j/rbef/a/7t5mJSb8rsk6TXWJXGyQY4n/?lang=pt. 
  8. ↑ 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. doi:10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2023-0067. ISSN 1806-9126. 
  9. ↑ Shuler, Robert L (2016). "'Leading clocks lag' and the de Broglie wavelength". Physics Education 51 (2). doi:10.1088/0031-9120/51/2/025005. ISSN 0031-9120. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9120/51/2/025005. 
  10. ↑ "Greg Bernhardt: SEO and Physics Forums Founder" (in en-US). https://gregbernhardt.com/. 
  11. ↑ "Scientific American: Partner Network Directory". 2008-09-12. http://www.sciam.com/partners/partner.cfm?partner=10A07B7E-BD48-2D3F-442D45EE7BF74C41. 
  12. ↑ "PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory". https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/. 
  13. ↑ Koerth, Maggie (2010-11-15). "The best physics websites". https://boingboing.net/2010/11/15/the-best-physics-web.html. 
  14. ↑ "Website Rankings For The Best Physics Websites". December 2021. https://aelieve.com/rankings/websites/category/science/best-physics-websites/. 



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