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Do you have any suggestions on great, reliable, informative science/physics/biology magazines for laymen? I really enjoy learning about developments in these fields. I see suggestions thrown around such as the Scientific American, however, I'm reading that it isn't what it used to be before, is...

@Greg Bernhardt Thanks.

@Greg Bernhardt Thanks for your response. So, is Physics Forums actually programmed with all of that complicated code?

So I see all of this talk about how you everyone should know how to program, etc. However, I don't get the purpose of it. I have seen people saying that you know how to program so you can tell the computer what to do. But even then what is the benefit of that? Others said that with programming...

Hey, I am new in this forum and looking forward to learn physics which I hate :) My first question concerns possibility, in theory. Say, there is a water tank. Let us say that we made a nanometer hole. The tank is full. Then, we put even more water through that hole. But the hole has something...