Posted by There’s a new physics Q&A site from the folks at Stack Exchange, this one on physics. If you’re not familiar with the format, it’s a bulletin-board style site where you can post questions to be answered by other users, and people vote the answers up and down, so you can get a decent feel for which answers are good, and which are less useful.
There’s a pretty wide range of questions, covering everything from really basic concepts to fairly technical questions about current research. My own feeling about this is that if you’re going to have it on the public web, you ought to expect and be willing to answer really basic stuff. So I’ve been answering some fairly general questions over there, trying to keep to the general policy I have here, namely minimal use of equations and technical minutiae. We’ll see how well I do with that. I’ll also probably copy the occasional question over here, because if I’m going to do all that typing, I might as well get some traffic for the site while I’m at it…
Anyway, if you have any burning questions that you’d really like to have answered, try it out. There are several hundred users at the moment, and odds are pretty good that somebody will be able and willing to give you an answer.
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