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| May 6, 2017 at 4:41 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 4:31 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 3:49 | answer | added | kalyani | timeline score: -4 | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 14:21 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | It's also telling that you think "backed by the US government" is a silver bullet of stability, particularly since the IA just felt compelled to duplicate its database in Canada because they felt that the US political climate was not stable enough for long-term preservation efforts. In other words: leave it to the pros. Producing a worthwhile book will already provide you with an oversized serving of challenges. | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 14:21 | comment | added | Kenshin | @EmilioPisanty indeed it was not my argument that this book should be a back up in case SE goes down. I do however think one should always be aware that no private enterprise is immune to failure, including archive.org | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 14:17 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @Kenshin that's the Internet Archive, and if it goes down then Internet preservation has much bigger problems than just SE. Thinking that a single printed book (in a single limited edition with low numbers) can best their efforts is laughably simplistic; they are run by professionals with several decades of experience in Internet preservation. This project can offer several things, but increasing the Q&A corpus' long-term archivability is not one of them. | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 14:05 | comment | added | Kenshin | @EmilioPisanty can we be sure that site you have linked is always going to be up and running? Is the site backed by the US government or something? | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 13:16 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @L.K. Are you aware that all user-provided content on SE is regularly data-dumped to archive.org? Fears of this site's content disappearing are unfounded. | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 21:28 | answer | added | John McAndrew | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 17:34 | comment | added | L.K. | I am glad to know such thing is also going on, because one day I was worried if all the questions are disappeared :) I will love to review the book. I know I am late (I was in hibernation) | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 7:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/835392891560345601 | ||
| Feb 24, 2017 at 7:58 | comment | added | Kenshin | @DanielSank hahaha did you not notice the 11 upvotes on the post? But even if just one person is interested in the book at least I have made someone happy. | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 7:54 | comment | added | DanielSank | "In response to the positive feedback..." I'm curious. Link? | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | Kenshin | @heather in Australia we go day/month/year, I'll update later for clarity :) | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 21:54 | comment | added | auden | um...1/3/2017 had already passed when you asked this question =) please update the date. | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 17:40 | answer | added | user146020 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 12:57 | comment | added | Jim | @Kenshin Only if you think they'd be good for the book. I wouldn't want you to put something in merely because I asked. But if you're at a point where you want some filler questions about a certain topic, let me know. I'll suggest some I might have on the topic or, if I don't have good ones, I'll suggest posts from others that I know are great for the topic. | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 12:34 | comment | added | Jim | @Kenshin I have more than one. In no particular order, here are my favourite (or at least, my most recently reviewed favourite. I'm not going to go through all 300 answers I have): physics.stackexchange.com/q/195550/23473, physics.stackexchange.com/a/142884/23473, physics.stackexchange.com/a/64935/23473, physics.stackexchange.com/a/146170/23473, physics.stackexchange.com/a/133943/23473 I've got plenty more I'd have suggested too, but at some point I have to draw the line between honest suggestions and pure self-promotion. | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 8:03 | history | edited | Kenshin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2017 at 7:49 | comment | added | Kenshin | @Jim I have selected the questions already now however you raise a good suggestion. I'm happy to allocate some answers (e.g. 10) request their high quality answer to appear in the book. Do you have a particular answer you would like to see in the book, and preferably one where the question and answer don't contain references/images that potentially couldn't be included due to copyright. Thanks | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 21:37 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | @JohnDuffield four post above you mention photon pair production. Not to change the subject here but maybe in chat would it be possible to answer a few questions? I am confused with many of the correlation experiments because there are so many different set ups. Could you explain how photon pairs would be setup and measured? Distances, frequencies, polarization? Maybe then from there I could be more specific. Thanks | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | @JohnDuffield that's right we talk and talk until one little thing shifts our Way of reasoning and the floodgates of accumulated data change everything. It's happened before. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | John Duffield | @Bill Alsept : it's a tricky one. All the upvotes in the world won't make a wrong answer right, or make up for a lack of scientific evidence. And vice-versa. IMHO an issue for stack exchange is science is not a democracy, and I don't think there's any solution to that. Such is life. Meanwhile, it's good to talk. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | @JohnDuffield I agree with the explaining to the grandmother part. This site is very useful in that way. But I'm talking about all the answers that are not correct or are the best answers we have right now. Those type are getting passed around in very interesting ways. For instance you mentioned the photon and we all know how many opinions there are on that subject. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 14:23 | comment | added | John Duffield | @Bill Alsept : it would be nice if you were right about sites like these being the breeding ground for the next paradigm shift. I see PSE as an "explain it to your grandmother" thing as it happens. If you cannot explain it to your grandmother you do not understand it yourself. Hence I've collected together all my own answers and I'm using them to drive something called the physics detective. I was originally thinking of a book, but now I intend it to be a free website. Something like Matt Strassler's blog, but with a "chapter" on the photon, on pair production, on the electron, etc. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 14:20 | comment | added | Jim | If you're looking for submissions, I can give a few of my posts that answer fun or interesting questions in a fun/easy to understand way | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | Its could be an interesting idea, especially if its packaged correctly and offered to the right audience. A lot can be made for the rapidly growing online interest of the wanna be physicist. A world where Google and the mutual interest of millions participate from around the world. Both layman and pro asking from different points of view. I feel quite confidant that sites like these are the breeding ground for the next paradigm shift. What's interesting about these important questions is the number of answers and how different they are but more interesting is how much we really don't know. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 13:07 | comment | added | John Duffield | @Tim : noted. I do think XKCD is a bit special though. Love that relativistic baseball! | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 17:29 | comment | added | Tim | @JohnDuffield The What-If XCKD book sold very well. I think most (all?) of the content in that book is online. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 17:24 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | @JohnDuffield all posts on SE are CC-by-SA, so do not see how one would have a leg to stand on in asking for a cut. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 16:16 | comment | added | John Duffield | I think it should be just physics. But I also think there's a whole rack of issues in producing a book. Which questions do you pick? Which answers do you pick? What if they've got lots up upvotes but they're flat-out wrong? What if a poster asks for a cut? What if it doesn't sell? A lot of the younger generation just don't read books. They don't like paying for things, especially things they can download for free. Good luck to anybody who wants to give it a shot. IMHO they will need it. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 15:36 | comment | added | auden | For me, interest depends significantly on what questions are in it. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 15:13 | comment | added | Qmechanic Mod | Related: meta.physics.stackexchange.com/q/9189/2451 | |
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| Feb 19, 2017 at 13:24 | comment | added | Kenshin | @anonymous I will be personally funding the endeavour and already have an affordable publisher. I just now need to ascertain the level of interest in the book. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 13:14 | comment | added | 2017 | On one hand I like the idea but on the other hand I don't think it will be worth the effort to publish the book without the help of the company (SE). Also, I'm not sure if the PSE community will be willing to fund the endeavour . It seems like a high input low output situation to me. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 11:37 | comment | added | ACuriousMind Mod | Related on mother meta: meta.stackexchange.com/q/273911/263383 | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 10:56 | comment | added | Kenshin | @ghosts_in_the_code perhaps, but I'd rather start with our smaller community here first. If it is a success then we can potentially ask on the main. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 10:30 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | This could also be asked on the main meta. | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 8:53 | history | edited | Kenshin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2017 at 7:24 | history | asked | Kenshin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |