Forum Restructuring: Philosophy/Social Science, Programming, Technology
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The Philosophy forums have been collapsed and merged with Social Science into a new "Philosophy and Social Science" category. Programming has been elevated to a main forum, encouraging increased participation from programmers. The Technology category has also been repositioned for better visibility. Users express excitement about these changes, noting the potential for more active discussions. Overall, the restructuring aims to enhance engagement across these topics.
The Philosophy forums have been collapsed. Social Science forum has been grouped with Philsophy into a "Philosphy and Social Science" category. Programming has been upgraded to a main forum. Technology category has been moved up.
I want to thank those members who interacted with me a couple of years ago in two Optics Forum threads. They were @Drakkith, @hutchphd, @Gleb1964, and @KAHR-Alpha. I had something I wanted the scientific community to know and slipped a new idea in against the rules. Thank you also to @berkeman for suggesting paths to meet with academia.
Anyway, I finally got a paper on the same matter as discussed in those forum threads, the fat lens model, got it peer-reviewed, and IJRAP...
About 20 years ago, in my mid-30s (and with a BA in economics and a master's in business), I started taking night classes in physics hoping to eventually earn the science degree I'd always wanted but never pursued. I found physics forums and used it to ask questions I was unable to get answered from my textbooks or class lectures.
Unfortunately, work and life got in the way and I never got further the freshman courses. Well, here it is 20 years later. I'm in my mid-50s now, and in a...
I found through a search some brief commentary but not enough. Exactly how use and activate and deactivate Push Notifications for Physicsforums?
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