Talk:Physics

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I have just reverted a good faith edit by an anon. editor. First, anon, I encourage you to take a user name so that we might talk on the same 'wavelength'. But however you wish to contribute, it would be good to cite some sources for reasoning. The mechanics for this is the <ref>Note: your note here (with page numbers please).</ref>, which then appears in the <references/> section. You are welcome to add your content with a good citation from a respected source. Once you have a source to cite, I personally have found it useful to use the {{harvnb|Physicist|Year|PageNumber}} template, where the citation is of the form {{Citation|first=Good|last=Physicist|year=1905|title=On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light|journal=Annalen der Physik|volume=17|pages=132–148}}. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 01:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Torsian field

Hi there,

I did not have time to read guidelines, I hope I don't offend any one. Can anyone tell a little more about this. I am interested in Remote viewing and one of the fields it mentions is "torsian". Not sure how to get reply so:

Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.75.209 (talk) 11:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes it's called pseudoscience. They make up phrases for non-existant phenomena and use buzz words such as quantum to make it sound as if it were real science. My personal suggestion is that you completely ignore this and concentrate on reality. Torsian is likely a misspelling of torsion maybe that'll help... 62.31.149.64 (talk) 15:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Criticism section proposed

The article should include criticism. Modern physics seems to stagnate, there have been nothing really new and groundbreaking since year 1947 of the transistor. Especially if we compare with biology/medicine, the current hot topic, phsyics does not seem to bring a good return of investment. Whatever we have today, like CPU are merely works of engineering reusing pre-1948 basic knowledge with great refinement, but it has no connection to basic physics science achieved since then.

Modern phisycs equipment like giant accelerator rings costs billions to make, yet results are nowhere near as revolutionary as achieved for relativity and quantum mechanics using little more than chalk and blackboard. Although there are still world-famous celebrities in physics, like Stephen Hawking, their contribution is not as significant as Einstein's or Schrodinger's were, at least not for the ordinary laymen.

What is wrong with modern physics? Lack of prominent individuals, lack of good leadership or have we simply reached the limit of our human brains and only a megacomputer AI could create a successful "theory of all"? What is the future of physics?

All these issues could be addressed under a separate criticism section. 82.131.210.162 (talk) 18:04, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually, revolutionary things are happening every day. I suggest you pick up a copy of Nature, Science, or the Physical Review rather than getting your physics from the newspaper.--Loodog (talk) 18:25, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Or even our own History of physics article.--Loodog (talk) 03:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Or Physics announced July 17, 2008 by the American Physical Society. There is also a free RSS feed of selected Physical Review Letters to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 09:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

String Theory

Where is it in the article?!!!!!!!!!! Yosef1987 (talk) 23:27, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

We need some physical predictions. Right now we have a theory which is the moral equivalent of the mythical central mountain of North America, whose rivers ran North, South, East and West, for reasons of symmetry. It took exploration to conclude that this mountain did not exist. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 17:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

But it is still a big part of theoretical physics and should be mentioned; could be wrong I dunno Yosef1987 (talk) 11:16, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

There are umpteen different proposed theories of quantum gravity, and illustrating them all in the article wouldn't be terribly useful, nor I can see any reason to choose any particular such theory. But a section about the most important unsolved problems in physics (and maybe a brief mention of the solutions of them considered more likely by mainstream scientists) should be added. --A r m y 1 9 8 7 ! !  14:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

What should we do with the development article?

It hasn't been edited since June. Should we replace the current Physics article with that one? --A r m y 1 9 8 7 ! !  13:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

...but apparently that article had no substantial edits since September 2007. I'm removing the mention of that article on the top of this page. --A r m y 1 9 8 7 ! !  19:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that article was better than this one in many aspects. I'll try to integrate stuff from there to here. --A r m y 1 9 8 7 ! !  19:10, 1 September 2008 (UTC)