Portal talk:Physics

--Dataphiliac 22:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)Anonymous user, perhaps you are working in a different resolution than I am and my length settings look bad for you, or is there another reason for your edits? --MarSch 09:45, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

There seems to be no reason to create a blank field - alignment/layout should not constitute the creation of one and should be added only if information is intended to be added directly. --User: 24.253.120.206

I'm using the Firefox browser v1.0 and it seems to have trouble renderizing the wikinews. Has anyone experienced the same thing?

--GTubio 21:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Featured article

It's gone more than a month now, I'm switching FA now. Let's keep track of those that have been. — Sverdrup 20:24, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. +sj + 28 June 2005 20:15 (UTC)

Here's some anniversaries in our FAs that we could celebrate by featuring here:

• January 1996, Comet Hyakutake discovered
• February 15, 1786, Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
• February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei's birthday
• February 28, 1901, Linus Pauling's birthday
• March 1, 1966, first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
• March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein's birthday
• March 24, 1993, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
• April 1, 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
• April 12, 1633, Galileo Galilei's trial starts
• April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
• April 24, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope launched
• April 30, 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
• May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman's birthday
• July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
• July 16, 1945, Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
• July 23, 1995, Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
• November 1915, Albert Einstein formulates GR
• November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan's birthday
• November 9, 1676, using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
• December 1610, Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus
• December 1995, Hubble Deep Field images taken
• December 22, 1968, Apollo 8 launched

The current physics FAs that haven't been recently featured and aren't on the above list are:

• Astrophysics Data System
• ATLAS experiment
• Big Bang
• Comet
• Fermi paradox
• H II region
• Herbig-Haro object
• Open cluster
• Planetary nebula
• Rainbow
• Soap bubble
• Transit of Venus
• Weather lore

Hopefully this'll get the ball rolling on picking new ones. — Laura Scudder | Talk 07:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Past featured articles

• March 27, 2005: Roche limit
• June 19, 2005: Cold fusion
• August 20, 2005: Black hole

Shouldn't we move the above to lists to separate pages, Portal:Physics/features or something. When people start discussing things on this talk page, they'll get lost. Karol 06:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree. It could get confusing. Updated the DYK, by the way. I'm having troubles uploading pictures though, maybe one of you can find something relavent? --Dataphiliac 01:33, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Featured pictures and table formatting

It seems that using large pictures (350px+ in width) breaks the table formatting on lower-resolution machines. We should probably take steps to avoid that, if we can. --Dataphiliac 22:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)