plutoisacomet said:
How did this go from a new forum to the ability of your great minds. Actually you have a mental quirk that allows significant attention to detail. Sorry, Career Guidance is the wrong solution genius. Don't build a wall around your intellectual city like Antoine Lavoisier because eventually you and your buddies will face the guillotine!
But they WERE a discussion regarding what you proposed, i.e. that PF already have forums that could cater to the type of discussion that you might want.
Please note that you ignored the points that I made, i.e. regarding demands and popularity, and why we can't simply have a new forum each time one is proposed. If you don't believe me, do a longer browse in this Feedback forum. You'll notice that a lot of other people have made pitches for their own favorite topics. We can't simply cater to each one of them especially when there is no indication that there will be a large number of members who'll be posting in those topic.
Condensed matter physics is the LARGEST topic in physics, and has the largest number of practicing physicists. Yet, on PF, it still doesn't get the same frequency of posting as, say, QM or SR. So even for something THAT big in practice, we can't justify it occupying a single forum all by itself, and therefore, that topic is lumped into other smaller topics.
Now, if such field as big as condensed matter does not get a forum to itself, can you see why it is hard to justify another forum on a topic that gets even less traffic on PF? It has nothing to do with "building walls" (not sure why that would even come up). It has everything to do with being practical. There's nothing here that prevents you from having such a discussion in forums that already exist. If you do not know where to post something, ask!
Zz.
