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[Schneibster]

Solid matter physics. Maybe as a subforum of the "Modern Physics" forum unless it gets big enough on its own.

[studiot]

Why would you restrict this to solid matter?

 

Do you mean what is usually called solid state physics or do you mean some form of continuum mechanics?

 

Have you done any counts to see if there is enough frequency of posting to warrant separating this stuff out into its own forum?

Edited February 22, 2014 by studiot

[ajb]

Condensed matter physics maybe, though that would largely be an application of quantum mechanics. I don't recall many questions that would fit squarely into such a subsection.

[Schneibster]

Why would you restrict this to solid matter?

 

Do you mean what is usually called solid state physics or do you mean some form of continuum mechanics?

 

Have you done any counts to see if there is enough frequency of posting to warrant separating this stuff out into its own forum?

 

There are multiple specializations within it; I'd include not only solid state physics and condensed matter physics but also exotic matter physics and nanotechnology and materials science. Quantum dots. Nanoarrays that can do unusual optical tasks. BECs. Cloaks of invisibility.

 

Not, for example, developments in string theory. Not relativity. Not high energy particle physics. Not cosmology. Matter physics, mostly solid matter physics.

 

And if there aren't enough articles there will be. Or should be, on a physics forum.

Condensed matter physics maybe, though that would largely be an application of quantum mechanics. I don't recall many questions that would fit squarely into such a subsection.

 

Yes, but beyond that. All sorts of unusual or exotic matter, BECs, superconductors, nanoarrays, quantum dots, and so forth.

Edited February 23, 2014 by Schneibster

[swansont]

As I recall the last time we discussed how to divide up the physics section, all we could agree on is that the labeling kinda sucked no matter what we did, because there's a whole bunch of physics that is hard to uniquely classify. We limited ourselves to 5 categories. If you have too many then there's no traffic in some of them, and staff wastes time trying to properly sort posts that inevitably appear in the wrong group.