Physics Forums getting some love at MSN

[Norman]

Physics Forums was mentioned in the article about the German students attempts to find a closed form solution to the air resistance problem. I am not sure if Alan Boyle is a member around here since I have been MIA for a very long time on PF.

Check it out: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/28/11920006-16-year-olds-equations-set-off-buzz-over-325-year-old-physics-puzzler?fb_ref=.T8TFdYJy97c.like&fb_source=home_multiline

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Yay! Good find Norman! :)

 

[lisab]

Nice! They almost got the name right !

 

[Evo]

The link works!

 

[cepheid]

This seems like nice publicity for the site! Congrats! Hopefully there will be more to come as people realize that PF is unique in the quality and accuracy of its information and the effort undertaken to maintain that.

 

[Danger]

This seems like nice publicity for the site!

Too right! If even a tiny fraction of the people who click on that link decide to hang around, it could mean hundreds of new members. At the very least, it will probably get a lot more traffic in the Homework section.

 

[dlgoff]

Kind of makes you proud to be a member.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We were also linked here (again incorrect title lol)

http://datelinenews.org/shourryya-ray-solution-to-350-year-old-isaac-Newton-puzzle-on-search-by-physicists/99554

 

[jobyts]

I liked the comment below in the link mentioned.

"Meanwhile, some American kid just set another record for text messages sent in a month."

 

[rhody]

The daily peanut gallery who have followed my posts over the past three years has grown from one hundred something or other to well over two hundred, enough said, that is absolute proof of more peanuts.

Rhody...

 

[GregJ]

In that photo he really doesn't look 16 to me somehow lol.

But aside from that, awesome that they mentioned the forum on there :)

 

[nitsuj]

This seems like nice publicity for the site! Congrats! Hopefully there will be more to come as people realize that PF is unique in the quality and accuracy of its information and the effort undertaken to maintain that.

hear, hear!

 

[leroyjenkens]

So is it a real problem that hasn't been solved yet? A problem about air resistance? Seems like that wouldn't be much of a problem for physicists.

 

[A/4]

Can anyone comment on what he actually did? I am unable to locate any papers, etc.., that describe the solution. Only media reports. That suggests to me this story isn't as big as it's being made out to be.