Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Why was my question immediately closed?
Today I questioned the claim that "SR is way easier and more beautiful to understand with tensors". I think that knowing about vector spaces, their duals and bilinear forms (i.e. bilinear ...
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Why is this question closed? I am finding no satisfactory answers from the personal comment
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Can time dilation be used to prove that relativistic mass does not really increase at speeds near $c$?
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I need to get a better idea about essential mathematical prerequisites for GR from a book. How can I improve the question?
In reference to my question here: What would be essential math topics to read for general relativity (from a particular book)?
I'm reading a book and wanted to get a clear understanding on what topics ...
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Why was this answer deleted?
My answer to a question was deleted under homework policy. The question didn't seem like homework. It was a genuine doubt why the user was getting a wildly different answer than the solution.
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Why close an answered question when both answer and question have positive vote counts?
Especially when a user cannot delete their own question.
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Why was this vector calculus question closed?
I just came across this question, which was closed under the site's homework policy. However, I fail to see how it is related to a specific calculation or is "check-my-work-like". While it ...
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Measurement of mass increase doesn't concern physics. Really?
This question has been closed:
How was mass increase measured?
because:
I’m voting to close this question because it concerns the history of physics – Bob D
and then:
Closed. This question is off-...
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How do I see the reason a question was closed?
I often see "question has been closed" sometimes stating "off topic" with no other rationale. It says potential improvements should "address reasons for closure," but I'...
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Why was this question down voted and closed as non-mainstream?
The question Are the following claims flaws in Relativity? was closed for not being mainstream physics, and it received a number of down votes.
Now, I haven't studied SR past brief coverings in my ...
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Inapproriate content to title
Recently this old question came to my notice because of a downvote:
Do magnets redshift light?
The content of the question is all about a hypothetical experiment full of unphysical hypotheseis:
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Why was my question closed for not being focused when it actually was?
I asked a question a few days ago. It got closed for needing to be “more focused.”
According to the site guidelines , in the Needs more focus part, it says:
This can often be fixed by breaking the ...
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Are future physics discoveries properly categorized as mainstream or not? [closed]
"Non-mainstream" physics is often equated to fallacies and fringe theories, including on this forum. Mainstream physics is rigorously categorized in specific historical scientific contexts, ...
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Why was this entanglement-harvesting question closed as off-topic?
I just noticed that the question
What happens to the vacuum when entanglement is harvested?
was closed as off-topic a couple of months ago, and I don't understand why. The topic is basic quantum ...
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Careless mistakes in formulas shouldn't be treated the same as non-mainstream physics
In this question,
What is the Schrödinger equation in position velocity space?
I originally made a careless mistake when writing the Schrödinger equation in velocity space, as I had originally ...
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Please reopen my question about a physical limit
I asked this question about what it is (if anything) that provides and upper limit to the speed of a turbine in a fluid stream: Maximum rotation rate of a turbine in a fluid with a given speed
It was ...
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Why would my question on tachyons be closed as off topic if most other questions on tachyons are still open?
When I type tachyons into the search engine of the site I find a lot of open questions about tachyons but my question about tachyons was closed as off topic
If electrically charged tachyons exist, ...
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Closing a 10-year old answered question as off-topic
Today, I found an email in my inbox that the question
Who should I contact if I see an unknown object in the sky?
has been closed today as off-topic.
The question has been asked and answered in June ...
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What if I ask a "what if" question?
What if I ask a "what if" question? What are the criteria for the question not to be closed? The question should be about physics. That's clear. The question shouldn't be completely random ...
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I don't understand why my question was closed?
What current would be measured in the following circuit?
There was some commentary about it being a homework question, which it isn't, I genuinely want to understand what happens when the point of ...
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When are questions with multiple different possible answers good?
It is well known that we do not encourage/allow questions that solicit open-ended discussions or that can only be answered by providing personal opinions, etc. However, at least to me, it seems a bit ...
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I think that this question is not off-topic
The following question has been closed because it is off-topic:
An approximation for path integral kernels
However, I'm presenting a new idea in that post: Set N=2 in the formula of the path integral ...
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Why has my question about the Einstein field equation been closed? [duplicate]
I would not have wanted to write this. In fact, I am so sorry of the fact that many times some questions are not considered as they are too stupid.
My question Scalar curvature is $0$ for ...
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Soft-question or off-topic question?
Where is the boundary between a soft-question and an off-topic question?
The issue has come up in connection to question Does physics explain why the laws and behaviors observed in biology are as they ...
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Why is it so difficult to apply the site policy consistently for opinion-based questions?
I already noticed a certain number of times that some questions have been closed based on the policy for "opinion-based" questions. Reading the rationale for that policy, I find:
Many good ...
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Textbook questions
There seems to be quite a lot of questions that demand for textbook answers. These are technically not homework questions - i.e., they are not asking for solutions to problems - but grounded in not ...
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Someone other than the OP adding "homework-and-exercises' tag to a question, and then the question gets closed as a homework-type-question?
On this question by Kashmiri, here, it was originally posted without the "homework-and-exercises" tag. And if you look at the question itself, nothing about it seems homework-type. Later the ...
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Why was this question on fiber switches closed?
Yesterday the question How do non-mechanical solid-state optical switches work? was closed as off-topic. I don't quite understand why, as questions about physics lab equipment are considered on-topic. ...
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Why was my resource recommendation question closed for needing more focus?
Books on general properties of matter and fluids. Can anyone please tell why this was closed and down voted? The topic comes under properties of bulk matter, which ...
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Please Consider Re-opening This Question
My question at Evidence that Time is a Natural Phenomenon? was closed as a duplicate of What is time, does it flow, and if so what defines its direction?
I read the related question and I don't see ...
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Why is the 'Physics' Stack Exchange site closing some interesting questions?
I came to the main site for searching an interesting question about a possible universe inside atoms.
Here is a list of questions:
Universe inside atom
Does our Universe reside in the smallest ...
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Why would someone think this question NOT mainstream physics?
I've asked a question that's mostly about optics with a little touch of thermodynamics to it: Can you use an invisibility shield to insulate from infrared radiation?
But I'm getting 2 close votes to ...
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Meta question closed as opinion-based [closed]
I do not like it my meta question, Why has my question from October 16, 2019 been downvoted?, has also been closed as opinion based because I asked a meta question about my own question. Why is my ...
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Fixing the closed-question notices following changes to the software
About a year ago, the post notices on closed questions changed across the entire SE platform. This changed a number of aspects of the Q&A engine software's behaviour and how it communicates meta ...
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Asymmetry between closing and reopening questions
I notice an apparent asymmetry between the two processes of closing a question or voting for reopening. In the former case, a reason for the vote must be given. In the latter, it is not possible to ...
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Did the question really deserve to be closed?
The question
Op didn't format the question in a very nice/ didn't put a lot of background.. however I do think that what the actual substance of the question is actually high value. I recall being ...
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Non-question: experimenting with custom close-reason banners in different contexts [closed]
I'm experimenting with editing close reasons, so here's a "question" that I can immediately close.
Here's how the custom close reason looks in the close-question dialog:
Here's how the ...
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The homework close reason contradicts itself
The first two sentences of the Homework close reason are:
Homework-like questions and check-my-work questions are considered off-topic here, particularly when asking about specific computations ...
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Is "check-my-work" defined to be off-topic in the site's help? (Should it be?)
On a recent question, there was some discussion in the comments about "homework-like" and "check-my-work". With regard to the latter, the OP pointed out that "check-my-work&...
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Why don't we add the option "other sites" in the close votes option?
We all know that some questions are posted in PSE but they should belong to another Stack Exchange site.
When you vote to close a question, via
Close question > A community specific reason > ...
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Requesting a question to be re-opened because it is not opinion based
I want the question Thoughts on neural networks "discovering" physical concepts to be reopened.
I realize that there was a "what is your opinion..." line in it earlier. I have ...
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Question is not being reopened even after editing
I had asked this question on PSE and it was considered off-topic and hence closed quoting that it was "Homework-like question". After that I edited the question following this guidelines. ...
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Care over closing "duplicate" questions
On a number of occasions, I have seen questions closed as duplicates although the linked question either did not have answers, or had only poor answers, and in some cases it had already been closed (...
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Why was my question closed as duplicate although the linked questions are related to different topics?
I asked this questiion yesterday: Does the shape of the Universe refer to the curvature of spacetime in 5-dimensional space?
While I now understand and got good answers, my question was closed as ...
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Why is my question closed when it already has enough details?
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Which EMF frequencies have the most spread and permeability?
It has enough details and I explained that to a user in the comments, operative ...
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Low-level conceptual questions closed as homework questions when using HW question as motivating example
In the past week, I've had two different questions closed as homework questions. In both questions, I included textbook problems that motivated my conceptual question, but in neither case was solving ...
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Question with broad application closed as homework question
I just asked a question about how to figure out how fast a room will cool, and what the name for this type of problem is, so I can do more research, and potentially find the answer to it in the ...
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Why was my question, on the 'cross sectional energy' of a photon, closed?
I don't see why this was closed: Does a single photon have a constant cross sectional energy?
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Why is this question actually off topic, how should it be modified so it is reopened?
I had asked: A game of boxes with rotating gears which was closed due to it being a "homework/check-my-work" question.
The question is NOT homework, it's an original question I had come up with. ...
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Is this question really non-mainstream?
The question What's wrong with this argument that Newton's second law implies all potentials are quadratic? has been closed as being “non-mainstream”. But one could argue that this would come ...
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