Physics Forums
Physics question-and-answer website From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Type of site | Question and answer |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | USA |
| Owner | Greg Bernhardt |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 200,000 |
| Launched | 2001 |
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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][better source needed]
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]
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