{"id":6054,"date":"2011-01-13T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:06:21","slug":"physics-stack-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/physics-stack-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Stack Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun thing to check out:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.stackexchange.com\/\">Physics Stack Exchange<\/a> is a crowd-sourced approach to asking (and getting answers to) physics questions. (Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/\">Chad<\/a>.)  Someone asks a question, others suggest answers, which then get voted up or down depending on how helpful they are perceived to be.  It&#8217;s like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/\">Urban Dictionary<\/a> for Physics.<\/p>\n<p>A quick peek around reveals that there are some really smart physicists answering questions there.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.stackexchange.com\/faq\">FAQ<\/a> for more details about how the system works.  Note that it&#8217;s aimed at &#8220;active researchers, academics and students of physics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know that I&#8217;ll be forwarding this site to people who email with physics questions.  Which means that really I should contribute to answering some of them.  You all should too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun thing to check out: the Physics Stack Exchange is a crowd-sourced approach to asking (and getting answers to) physics questions. (Hat tip to Chad.) Someone asks a question, others suggest answers, which then get voted up or down depending on how helpful they are perceived to be. It&#8217;s like an Urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}