General Discussion Forum

Post thread
Join the fun discussing casual topics sometimes outside the realm of science and technology. Maybe about books, movies, cooking, or general thoughts and commentary. This is a relaxing forum to unwind from the technical topics.

New Member Introductions

Introduction
  • Sticky
How to use the "w" in www
  • · Replies 0 ·
Replies
0
Views
4K
  • Sticky
Buy Amazon and Support PF Using This Link
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
6K
  • Sticky
Guidelines for speculative and political topics
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
22K
Variations on Sacharov's problem
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
177
Wordle Lovers - Play the NYT Daily Game
  • · Replies 8K ·
267
Replies
8K
Views
235K
Random Thoughts 7
  • · Replies 2K ·
64
Replies
2K
Views
59K
R.I.P. Steven Cropper: October 12th 1942 – Dec 3rd 2025
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14
Views
940
Why have the number of questions declined over recent years?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
256
New person here, where do I post my own personal hypothesis?
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14
Views
710
Random Photos
  • · Replies 3K ·
114
Replies
3K
Views
160K
Collection of Lame Jokes
  • · Replies 24K ·
787
Replies
24K
Views
2M
News Weird News Compilation
  • · Replies 2K ·
70
Replies
2K
Views
154K
King tides are no joke
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
362
NASA Shutdown
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
443
Today I Learned
  • · Replies 7K ·
228
Replies
7K
Views
461K
Predictions for the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (results: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis)
  • · Replies 37 ·
2
Replies
37
Views
4K
RIP Daniel Kleppner (1932-2025)
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
626
YouTube Classics, Part Deux
  • · Replies 810 ·
28
Replies
810
Views
79K
Programming Jokes: Lame, Science & Math Jokes!
  • · Replies 465 ·
16
Replies
465
Views
34K
Movies you'd forgotten were really cool?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
281
Why Does Snow Pack Better Near the Melting Point?
  • · Replies 161 ·
6
Replies
161
Views
21K
Collection of Science Jokes P2
  • · Replies 4K ·
135
Replies
4K
Views
442K
Advent Of Code - Daily coding challenges during December
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
342
  • Poll Poll
I am older than she is/than her...
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22
Views
556
Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers
  • · Replies 3K ·
100
Replies
3K
Views
269K
Kitten Lovers: Cuteness Overload
  • · Replies 4K ·
129
Replies
4K
Views
578K
  • Poll Poll
Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college?
  • · Replies 137 ·
5
Replies
137
Views
4K
Best physics magazines?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
259
Kitten raising advice
  • · Replies 40 ·
2
Replies
40
Views
2K
Einstein vs Newton - Who is your favorite and why?
  • · Replies 28 ·
Replies
28
Views
1K
Happy Thanksgiving
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
1K
What is alfalfa used for?
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16
Views
710
Are Conventional Turkey Thawing Instructions Backwards?
  • · Replies 47 ·
2
Replies
47
Views
5K
A global version of the implicit function theorem
  • · Replies 0 ·
Replies
0
Views
310
Happy Thanksgiving - YouTube Video
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
1K
Why Are You Still Here? A Curious Question
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
555
Antique Pocket Sundial
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14
Views
842
Bad Math Jokes
  • · Replies 405 ·
14
Replies
405
Views
40K
To get rid of a singularity in the Lagrange equations
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
606
Cultural exchange forum?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
467
"The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to reduce inflation"
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
368
News RIP Kenneth Nordtvedt
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
349
Legal AI Shenanigans
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
399
APS's 2026 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize!
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
404
Why Do Fathers Experience Premature Graying?
  • · Replies 335 ·
12
Replies
335
Views
32K
Is this device possible (hope not)?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
402
A.I. Taking Over the Doing of Homework?
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
391
Rare Earth Magnets costs NZ teen part of his bowel
  • · Replies 21 ·
Replies
21
Views
562
What is this Facebook formatting trend?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
430
The Great Crash of Amazon AWS and Reduction in Staff in Favor of AI
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
328
States of matter: "viscoelastic fluid", familiar term is "cream"
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
374
Ferris Eugene Alger
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
406
RIP Chen Ning Yang (1922-2025)
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
978
Please give me some ideas... (hackathon problem statement)
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
436
RIP Susan Stamberg (87), NPR 'founding mother'
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
332
RIP John Stachel (1928-2025)
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
792
Yikes! Autonomous cars to control intersections, drivers be aware!
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
429
Anybody following (or followed) Jack Ryan (2018)?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
366
RIP John Lodge (82), bassist and lyricist with the Moody Blues
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
323
In the early days of electricity, they didn't have wall plugs
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20
Views
2K
RIP Darleane C. Hoffman (1926-2025)
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
365
Could the Laws of Physics Be Proportional to Entropy?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
469
  • Poll Poll
A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid
  • · Replies 94 ·
4
Replies
94
Views
2K
Complexity Physics and Tipping Points in Chess
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22
Views
2K
RIP Jane Goodall (91), primatologist and conservationist
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14
Views
624
Constructing a meme - an exercise
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
394
RIP Claudine Cardinale
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
613
Status Update by JRMichler
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
572
Will-o’-the-Wisps
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
364
Does anybody know about Spacecraft Online Simulator?
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
464
RIP Mary Gaillard (1939-2025)
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
512
RIP George F. Smoot III (1945-2025)
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
504
Does anyone own a Wimshurst or Electrostatic machine?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
391
A Big Thank You to Physics Forums
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
392
15 Years at PF!
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15
Views
747
Happy Pythagorean Day!
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
607
A question about Emma Kok Singing
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
392
RIP. Richard Davies (22 July 1944 – 6 September 2025)
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
420
James Hartle RIP: Remembering a Beloved GR Teacher
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
RIP Robert Redford (89)
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13
Views
562
Is mathematics invented or discovered?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
450
Is the criteria for the present perfect tense in Warriner's textbook inadequate?
  • · Replies 40 ·
2
Replies
40
Views
5K
Fast Food Discussion: Mexican Pizza at Taco Bell
  • · Replies 310 ·
11
Replies
310
Views
24K
How the Blue Angels Train
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
465
The Case of Andrew D. - out
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
403
A Crisis in France -- Bottled water may not be what it's advertised to be
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
555
'How Does Your Garden Grow' thread - raised beds
  • · Replies 36 ·
2
Replies
36
Views
2K
ChatGPT Facilitating Insanity
  • · Replies 35 ·
2
Replies
35
Views
1K
My experience as a hostage
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
496
RIP Rainer Weiss (1932-2025)
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
434
How do people explore new ideas in physics?
  • · Replies 52 ·
2
Replies
52
Views
2K
News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses
  • · Replies 1K ·
34
Replies
1K
Views
70K
Great one-liners from PF members
  • · Replies 708 ·
24
Replies
708
Views
59K
Gravity in science fiction movies
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16
Views
666
Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
  • · Replies 43 ·
2
Replies
43
Views
1K
RIP Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025)
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
474
News JWST may be shut down by DOGE
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13
Views
1K
AI vs. German Physics Olympiad
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
495
Anyone been to a Savannah Bananas Baseball Game?
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14
Views
3K
Physics inserted in society
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
543
RIP James Lovell, the astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
480
RIP Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025)
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
707
Finding support to complete a UK charity registration application
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
694