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Polymath project equivalent for Physics?

If you see that: there is some interest and too much discussion/reformulation is involved for the frames of SE then it may be worth to start a blog/wiki/... …
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Level of questions?

I totally agree. While I enjoy answering simple questions and teaching others, I joined physics.stackexchange.com hoping for 'Mathoverflow for physicists'. The proposal says clearly 'Beta Q&A site fo …
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Quantitative Questions?

Usually when you can formulate well a quantitative questions, then you can answer it as well. Of course there may be exceptions, but well, no one forbids to ask them! Existence of a definitive answer …
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Wikipedia like questions

People often ask general questions without even bothering to search Wikipedia (or Google). I think it should be firmly discouraged (voting down/closing + writing this rule in FAQ) as: It reduces …
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Is it appropriate to ask for criticism of a paper one is writing?

Personally, I would love to see more questions based on real research (and real publications). In fact, I can't imagine the better ones. Of course, good one is asking if a proof can be simplified, or …
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New tag(s) for very basic questions?

There is already tag foundations (and it's not meta by any means). Just it is not used that much (yet?). The problem you are addressing is very real, as most of simple questions can be asked on total …
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Where should research-level questions go? Theoretical Physics SE or Physics Research SE?

Discussion on Theoretical Physics - Area 51 - Stack Exchange (group proposal) Post on Joe Fitzsimons' Blog The main question are: Who of you are interested in having general Physics Research SE rather …
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Theoretical Physics SE - a place for research-level questions

Just recently, Theoretical Physics - Stack Exchange has entered the open beta phase. It is a research-level question site, so we aim at questions that cannot be answered by a standard textbook. We enc …
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TagOverflow - an interactive graph of Physics.SE tags

I created a graph of tags from Stack Exchange sites (including Physics.SE), TagOverflow. I made an interactive version of Map of 64 Tags from Physics.SE, with always up-to-date data. Nodes represen …
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Can we get rid of the "philosophy" tag?

I disagree. It often helps to understand if one asks about technical details of, for example, quantum measurement or "What is >the very meaning< of a quantum measurement?".
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Map of 64 Tags from Physics.SE

I've just made a map of tags for Physics.SE. In short: tag size is related to tag popularity and edges are related to tag co-occurrences in questions. For me it looks as a "snapshot" of topics and sco …
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