Is There an Astrobites Equivalent for Physics?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nabeshin
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Analog Physics
AI Thread Summary
Astrobites serves as a valuable resource for undergraduate astronomy students, aiding their understanding of current research literature and benefiting graduate students who contribute articles. The discussion raises the need for a similar resource in physics, acknowledging the complexity and breadth of the subject compared to astronomy. While physics lacks a unified arXiv category like astro-ph, participants express interest in exploring options for specific categories such as gr-qc, hep-th, and hep-ph. The conversation highlights the perceived challenges in explaining theoretical physics papers, suggesting a potential gap in accessible resources. There is a collective interest in finding or creating a similar platform for physics to enhance comprehension and engagement with research literature.
Nabeshin
Science Advisor
Messages
2,207
Reaction score
16
Astrobites provides an interesting, and in my opinion, important service of helping undergraduate astronomy students become better acquainted with current research literature. Beyond helping these students, it's also nice for the graduate students who produce the articles.

Does anyone know of a similar resource for physics? Granted, physics is a much larger subject, and we don't have a single unified arXiv category like astro-ph to draw from, but nevertheless something seems possible. Or if there is nothing unified, perhaps something just for gr-qc, hep-th, hep-ph, or any of the specific physics categories? It also seems that the barrier towards explaining these (theoretical) papers is higher than that for astrophysics, but this could just be a failure of my own understanding.

At any rate I'd like to open a discussion on this, since if nothing like this exists I think it would be excellent to create something!

(I don't know where this topic fits, so feel free to move as is necessary.)
 
Physics news on Phys.org
I have been wondering this same thing - a google search directed me to your post. I'll keep an eye and post back here if I find anything. Hopefully you can do the same. I'm also very interested in finding such a source or creating one if there is a void.
 
TL;DR Summary: What topics to cover to safely say I know arithmetic ? I am learning arithmetic from Indian NCERT textbook. Currently I have finished addition ,substraction of 2 digit numbers and divisions, multiplication of 1 digit numbers. I am moving pretty slowly. Can someone tell me what topics to cover first to build a framework and then go on in detail. I want to learn fast. It has taken me a year now learning arithmetic. I want to speed up. Thanks for the help in advance. (I also...
Hi community My aim is to get into research about atoms, specifically, I want to do experimental research that explores questions like: 1. Why do Gallium/Mercury have low melting points 2. Why are there so many exceptions and inconsistencies when it comes to explaining molecular structures / reaction mechanisms in inorganic and organic chemistry 3. Experimental research about fundamental Quantum Mechanics, such as the one being followed by Hiroshima university that proved that observing...
guys i am currently studying in computer science engineering [1st yr]. i was intrested in physics when i was in high school. due to some circumstances i chose computer science engineering degree. so i want to incoporate computer science engineering with physics and i came across computational physics. i am intrested studying it but i dont know where to start. can you guys reccomend me some yt channels or some free courses or some other way to learn the computational physics.
Back
Top