PF Search top right is a good place to start.Slimy0233 said:I reckon most of the questions except HW which are asked here have been discussed in the past in some corner of the internet. I wonder what one can do to search for it effectively. Do you have any tricks up your sleeve which you use when you feel like you are not getting discussions you should be getting while you search for it on the internet?
The problem is often not that you do not get results that you want from a search, but that you do get a lot of results you don't want. You need to train yoursef to ignore the clickbait (e.g. the second hit on a search for "Casimir effect": "The Casimir effect: a force from nothing. The attractive force between two surfaces in a vacuum - first predicted by Hendrik Casimir over 50 years ago - could affect everything from micromachines to unified theories of nature."Slimy0233 said:Do you have any tricks up your sleeve which you use when you feel like you are not getting discussions you should be getting while you search for it on the internet?
Constructed within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the dynamical Casimir effect has been used to better understand acceleration radiation such as the Davies-Fulling-Unruh effect.[citation needed]
What brilliant treasure trove you have lead me to!fresh_42 said:
I think I have forgotten nLab in case you want to win a mathematical argument by the superior choice of words. It is an absolutely reliable source for mathematical definitions, however, mainly from the standpoint of category theory. (We say here: "shooting down sparrows with canons".)Slimy0233 said:What brilliant treasure trove you have lead me to!
This.fresh_42 said:If you are looking especially for "discussions on the internet", I would answer "Don't!".
Yep. Skimming through discussions is good to find the right words to search for, thus: learning the 'language' of the question you are looking for, but that's all it is good for.Slimy0233 said:Do you have any tricks up your sleeve which you use when you feel like you are not getting discussions you should be getting while you search for it on the internet?
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