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Dispute at An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

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Does An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything need a picture of Garrett Lisi? XOR'easter (talk) 17:36, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

No it does not, and I question if this obsolete article, which is now only a vanity page, is needed in Wikipedia at all. Looks like a 3RR by User:RaphaelQS. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:45, 5 October 2021 (UTC).

Tesla and this WikiProject

There is a discussion at Talk:Nikola Tesla#Was Tesla a scientist? over whether the article belongs in this Wikiproject. SpinningSpark 08:37, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hořava–Witten domain wall#Requested move 4 October 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hořava–Witten domain wall#Requested move 4 October 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 05:47, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

After the initial 7 day RM period, this discussion has had no participation (besides the nominator). Some attention from editors experienced in this topic area would be useful. The proposed new title is Hořava-Witten theory. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 05:49, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

LTA/former LTA?

Reddit thread made December 2019 admits to changing around numbers in Dimensionless numbers in fluid mechanics and various others. Old, but might be worth knowing in the future. wizzito | say hello! 05:09, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

In that article the only formula change between March 2016 and the reddit thread happened to the Reynolds number and that's okay. Impossible to check all physics articles because of that old thread now. --mfb (talk) 23:35, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

New state of matter discovered

Letting editors with the WikiProject of Physics know that the new state of matter, electron quadruplets has a stub article now. Elijahandskip (talk) 19:04, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

WP:TOOSOON?--Srleffler (talk) 04:23, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

I'd tend to agree. What we need are peer-reviewed secondary sources that cover the history of the idea. With those in hand, we could say whether this topic needs a paragraph in a larger article, or whether it deserves to be a stand-alone page. I'm a bit dubious on the latter, though; for comparison, strange metal is only a section in Fermi liquid theory. XOR'easter (talk) 04:36, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

If I never see another citation to phys.org, it'll be too soon. But apart from that, time-reversal symmetry breaking in exotic superconductors is a pretty big topic of research (see here for a review that looks decent, and here for an observation that dates back to 1998). Maybe that's the broader setting in which this could be discussed. XOR'easter (talk) 05:57, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Wind power

Wind power has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:08, 22 October 2021 (UTC)