Physics Forums

{{Short description|Physics question-and-answer website}}

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| url = {{URL|https://www.physicsforums.com/}}

| commercial = No

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| type = Question and answer

| owner = Greg Bernhardt

| users = 200,000

| launch_date = {{start date and age|2001}}

| headquarters = USA

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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.{{Cite web |last=Main |first=Douglas |date=2015-09-14 |title=Bubble Implosions Create Heat of Four Suns, Study Says |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bubble-implosions-create-heat-four-suns-372155 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-10-20 |title=Physicists Find That Animals' Top Speeds Are Proportional to Body Length |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70111/physicists-find-animals-top-speeds-are-proportional-body-length |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=Mental Floss |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2015-10-23 |title=It's Body Length, Not Mass, That Lets the Cheetah Run So Fast |url=https://gizmodo.com/its-body-length-not-mass-that-lets-the-cheetah-run-so-1737690204 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Gizmodo |language=en}} Notable members and blog authors past and present include John C. Baez,{{Cite web |title=John Baez's Stuff |url=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. |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=math.ucr.edu}} Urs Schreiber,{{Cite web |title=Urs Profile |url=https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber#:~:text=is%20here.-,9.%20column,-I%20used%20to |website=ncatlab}} Antony Garrett Lisi.{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2015 |title=Garrett Lisi's Superparticle Bet With Frank Wilczek | Physics Forums |url=https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/superparticle-bet-frank-wilczek/ |website=Physics Forums Insights}} Physics Forums entries have also been cited in scientific papers.{{Cite journal |last1=Dorsch |first1=Gláuber Carvalho |last2=Guio |first2=Thaisa Carneiro da Cunha |date=2021-06-28 |title=Física de Partículas no ensino médio Parte I: Eletrodinâmica Quântica |url=https://www.scielo.br/j/rbef/a/7t5mJSb8rsk6TXWJXGyQY4n/?lang=pt |journal=Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física |language=pt |volume=43 |pages=e20210083 |doi=10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2021-0083 |issn=1806-1117|arxiv=2103.04946 }}{{Cite journal |last1=Guio |first1=Thaisa C. da C. |last2=Dorsch |first2=Gláuber C. |date=2023 |title=Particle Physics in High School Part II: Nuclear Physics |journal=Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física |volume=45 |pages=e20230067 |doi=10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2023-0067 |arxiv=2303.10296 |issn=1806-9126}}{{Cite journal |last=Shuler |first=Robert L |date=2016 |title='Leading clocks lag' and the de Broglie wavelength |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9120/51/2/025005 |journal=Physics Education |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=025005 |doi=10.1088/0031-9120/51/2/025005 |s2cid=124664840 |issn=0031-9120|url-access=subscription }}