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I fixed dashes in one section only, but there are more to be done; have a look at WP:DASH on the difference between emdashes, endashes and hyphens. On matter-mass, I wasn't certain if it's a hyphen, or it it refers to matter to mass, in which case it may be an endash, but in either case, it wouldn't be an emdash. Regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your help on The Age of Reason. I am busy researching, so it will take me a few days or a week to address your major points.
I was wondering if you would be willing to review Transformer. I did a "peer review exchange program" with the editor, but I feel incredibly guilty that I could not actually review the article more. Since I know nothing about transformers, I became mired down in clicking on other articles to try and understand the topic. As a physicist (cool), I am sure that you know the basics of transformers. I know the editor would greatly appreciate any help. His article has been sitting at peer review for a while.
By the way, was I correct in saying that undergraduate physics majors do not really understand general relativity? This is what all of my undergraduate physics major friends tell me. Are they all, um, challenged? I hope the FAC calms down and returns to a discussion of your excellent article. Awadewit | talk 05:17, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Markus,
Would you mind if I tinkered a bit with Introduction to general relativity? I think I could make some improvements, but I would hate to throw a monkey wrench into its FAC, or make you miffed at me, so I thought I should ask first. If you'd prefer, I can wait until after it becomes FA. I could also write a few notes in a sandbox, and you could just extract what you liked from there. With many thanks for your understanding and hard work here, Willow 02:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Keep up the good work Markus and good luck with the main article. It attracts quite a few cranks so be careful. Cheers-- Cronholm 144 07:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
You might want to enlist the help of User:Silly rabbit, User:WillowW, User:Geometry guy, User:JRSpriggs, User:EVula, User:DVdm, User:Ems57fcva, User:Count Iblis, and WP:PHYS when you finally get going (although they will probably join in regardless). I imagine you could whip up an FA article from what is there in two weeks. Good luck.-- Cronholm 144 08:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
That sounds like a good idea - thanks for the list of names! I hope that, even though getting the article to FA status within two weeks should be possible, things will move much more slowly. While I'm motivated to contribute, I think I need to cut down on the overall time I've been spending on WP the last week or so. -- Markus Poessel 09:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I completely understand, it is very addictive, I have to cut down during the school year otherwise I don't get anything done. :)-- Cronholm 144 09:23, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I've only had a chance to glance briefly through Intro to GR, so I won't comment at the FAR FAC yet, but what I've seen looks great! Great writing, good organization, and not a single rubber sheet or the like to make me cringe. (Well, "doyen" instead of something simpler like "prominent" made me squint, but I can't argue it's inaccurate.) I see you have Willow on board, so this is sure to be an FA success story, and I look forward to reading through it carefully when I get a chance. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.
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I just wanted to mention a minor technical detail in case there are a few sanboxes still lying around. When you transfer the original article be sure to remove the categories at the bottom of the article, otherwise it will count in the tables as an article (I did this with my first sandbox as well, it is fairly common). I removed them from WIP, but I wasn't sure if you had noticed, so I thought I would let you know. Cheers-- Cronholm 144 19:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
A worthy FA - let there be more...-- Joopercoopers 11:30, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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After your eloquent, calm and insightful defense of the excellent article Introduction to general relativity at FAC, you certainly deserve an award! Awadewit | talk 19:56, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
It would seem that the peer review for The Age of Reason was prematurely archived by someone or somebot. I have made extensive revisions. Please let me know if they address the problems you raised. We can just start chatting on the talk page of the article. Thanks so much for your help - I've never had this much trouble with an article and I really appreciate your assistance. Awadewit | talk 19:58, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I understand if you can't really get into this, but I have a question: I understand what gravitation time dilation is, but I can't piece together from the various articles I've read WHY it occurs. I must warn you, I'm no physicist, I'm just reading up on some topics. If you could find the time to message me and explain it, briefly and (relatively) simply, I'd appreciate it. TribeCalledQuest 14:42, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
I saw your note to the GR vandal:
Dear anonymous user; thanks for dropping by general relativity to fix some things. The article is currently being revised simultaneously by a number of editors, and in such a situation, it would be great if you could propose major changes such as deleting a section...
Thanks for making my day! Alfred Centauri 22:35, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if you might have some spare time (!) to do a peer review of Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman. It is an article about a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft (I'm working on a Wollstonecraft featured topic at the moment - I'm almost done - so close.) I am struggling with the organization of the article (again). Also, I am having a difficult time presenting all of the major scholarly points of view without descending into "X said...However, Y argues...Yet, Z sees it this way..." If you could offer any insights over the next few weeks, I would greatly appreciate it. The article did not garner a lot of attention at WP:PR. Since the academic year has started up again for me, there is no rush. I have plenty of other things to do!
Also, I don't know if Willow mentioned it to you, but she is harvesting right now, so she won't be around that much for the next month or so. I just wanted to make sure that you knew she wasn't abandoning introduction to general relativity. She is knee-deep in vegetables or something. Awadewit | talk 18:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for the careful and thorough reviews you lavished on The Age of Reason and The Wrongs of Woman. Your thoughtful comments helped me step back and see the articles from a new perspective. I appreciate your willingness to reread drafts and your great good humor. It is a pleasure to work with you. Awadewit | talk 01:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC) |
Hi Markus,
I'm conscious that I owe you something thoughtful at ItGR but, honestly, I'm too tired today. I'm writing because there's a stubborn vandal at the Schwarzschild metric, coincidentally German from their user page. I can't revert him again because of WP:3RR, so any help you could give me would be curvaceously welcome in many dimensions. ;) Willow 01:00, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Finally! Something tangentially related to modern science! If you have any time in the next month or two, could you peer review Joseph Priestley? I have had two other editors occasionally looking over my shoulder at the science, but it never hurts to have more (I mean, I originally wrote he discovered "oxygen" instead of "oxygen gas"!) As the article is long and somewhat complex (it involves theology, philosophy, politics, and natural philosophy), I would owe you many favors. Awadewit | talk 06:48, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I came across a quotation you might find intriguing. In 1789, the Analytical Review reviewed Jean d'Alembert's History of the French Academy and this is how they described him: "a man distinguished in the most learned society in Europe by the universality and depth of this knowledge; by his proficiency in grammar, particular and universal, philology, metaphysics, history, the fine arts, and, above all, geometry". - I thought you would like the grammar bit, especially since you must so familiar with the mathematical formula named after him. :) Awadewit | talk 07:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Please think about adding yourself to this list of peer reviewers. Awadewit | talk 19:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
If you have a moment in the coming weeks, perhaps you could review Joseph Johnson (publisher)? It is a bit longish, so I would understand if you said no. Johnson was am important publisher of works by people like Wollstonecraft and Priestley. Awadewit | talk 07:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to thank you for the knowledge I've gained working with you on introduction to general relativity and the increased care you've forced me to take with my own contributions through your careful and thoughtful reviews. (I wanted to include a picture of the gingerbread particle accelerator that my friends and I are planning, but like most particle accelerators, its creation has been delayed. Hopefully, it will come online soon.) Awadewit | talk 09:06, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I was just visiting Wikipedia:Template limits and noticed you hit the limit with a 100 cites. You might like to know that this should no longer be a problem, because a new page preprocessor has been introduced. So you no longer need to substitute for the citation template. Geometry guy 12:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
You might be interested in this debate: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Introduction to evolution (2nd nomination). Awadewit | talk 18:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
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I was wondering if you had time to review and perhaps improve the Force article a bit. From looking at the lead, I am worried that it doesn't explain the concepts as clearly to the layperson as it could. The article is currently at FAC. Awadewit ( talk) 21:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, the other image is much higher-resolution. Among other things, you can read the facade with phrases like "Family", "Film", "Wall to Wall", "Dance", "Literature", "Bloomsday on Broadway", posters for some upcoming shows etc. You can also see the sign for Thalia, Peter Norton's name, and the digital marquee in action.-- Pharos ( talk) 23:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Erm...did I do that? I guess I did. Strangely, I ran into that page marked as a new one while doing new-page patrol. I wouldn't have CSD'd otherwise...perhaps my browser glitched, or the site glitched, or I glitched. I had no intention of marking that for deletion. I could have sworn it appeared as a new page; apparently I made a stupid error. Sorry about that... Fusion Mix 22:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, melde mich hier gleich direkt: Wir haben in der deutschen Wikipedia einen kleinen Disput, der sich u.a. um einen Ihrer Texte dreht -
Von E=mc² zur Atombombe. Einige (wie ich) folgen der Meinung von
Werner Heisenberg,
Robert Serber und Ihnen, dass E=mc² nur eine nebensächliche Rolle bei den Entwicklungen zur Kernspaltung und der Atombobme spielten. Andere wie z.b.
de:Benutzer:Norbert Dragon sehen das etwas anders und meinen, Ihre Darstellung sei falsch. Siehe dazu die Diskussionen:
Dear Markus Poessel,
I write to you, because I found your name under the discussion about General Relativity (GR). I read the page about GR and found, that it claim, GR predict Black Holes. As I understand GR, a Black Hole can't be formed, because it'll take an infinite time for the last part to fall in, so a event horizon can be formed. Isn't this correct, and should it be pointed out on the page about GR?
See: http://www.engr.newpaltz.edu/~biswast/bhole/blackhole.shtml and http://physorg.com/news101560368.html
Sincerely John Niclasen, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark. http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/
John Niclasen ( talk) 09:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
How've you been? I'm sorry that I've been lame about finishing our work at Introduction to general relativity, but I hope to get back there this summer, if you're still game. I think Awadewit would be. I've rather allowed myself to get distracted. :(
One of my distractions you might like, however: List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein. :) It's being considered as a Featured List candidate right now. If you could look it over and critique it, I'd be grateful. I tried to get everything right, but I'm conscious of how horribly limited my knowledge is, so I'd really appreciate your help and review. Thanks muchly, Markus! :) Willow ( talk) 23:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, first let me congratulate you for your very well written article. I wanted to ask you something about a phrase in section Experimental tests:
Have the results been published, so that the article can be updated? I'm asking you, because you might be in a better position to update this than most people. Good luck! diego_pmc ( talk) 08:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Interested in learning about the author of Frankenstein? I know you are! :) Qp10qp have finally raised Mary Shelley to the peer review level and are looking for the kind of careful reviewer that I know you are! If you have time, we would really appreciate your thoughts on the article. Awadewit ( talk) 12:05, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Markus,
after your helpful PR and additions about groups, I'm even bolder to kindly ask for your help in two questions: I was tagging the article with {{ fact}} tags here and there. There are two claims about physcis, which would benefit from a source, favorably by someone who knows what goes on. (I.e. not me here):
"They [Lie groups] can, for instance, be used to construct simple models – imposing, say, axial symmetry on a situation will typically lead to significant simplification in the equations one needs to solve to provide a physical description.{{ fact}} Lie groups are also of more fundamental importance: Noether's theorem links continuous symmetries to conserved quantities.{{ fact}}"
Do you know of a concrete example for the first claim, together with a source? The second is probably easier to source(?)
Thank you in advance. If I can do something in return (especially in algebra / alg. number theory) I'll be glad to do so. Jakob.scholbach ( talk) 21:21, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I saw that GR was up for FAC! I wish I could review the article, but I think I should stick to the beginner's version for now. :) Are you going to work on any other introductions? Awadewit ( talk) 14:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Sure, no problem. I'll go ahead and cap my comments. Nousernamesleft ( talk) 18:18, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Template_talk:Introductory_article#What_does_generally_accessible_mean.3F about what the introductory article template really means. It will be helpful if you weighed in. Thank you. Loom91 ( talk) 21:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I read with interest your comment at the discussion of the introduction template. I think a reasonable guideline is that the level of the main article and the "introduction" article should be substantially different, with the latter accessible to a much wider audience. In the case of introduction to systolic geometry, you will notice that the level is considerably more accessible than the main article. There is nothing here that should not be accessible to someone with a good highschool education, which in this case means a reasonable calculus course containing some discussion of length and area and how they relate to derivatives (granted such a course is not always offered at the high school level any more). As far as introduction to general relativity, obviously high quality of this sort is difficult to match, and if the "introductions" category is ever to get beyond the dozen articles found there currently, standards will have to be relaxed somewhat. Katzmik ( talk) 08:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in Introduction to virus, which is currently up for FAC here. Awadewit ( talk) 15:32, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Markus, Would you have time to revisit the FAC? I have tried to address all your helpful comments. Best wishes, Graham. GrahamColm Talk 12:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Markus, thanks for all the help with this one, I think I actioned all your valuable comments now. Graham. GrahamColm Talk 18:07, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Markus, thanks for your critical review, edits, and suggestions. I enjoyed answering your questions. The FA status could have not been achieved without you. Best wishes , Graham. GrahamColm Talk 19:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I reviewed your GA nom for World Science Festival and had a few questions, so I temporarily put the nom on hold. If you could answer them, I think everything will check out. :) Intothewoods29 ( talk) 18:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Okay great! I don't see anything else wrong, so I'm promoting this to GA status! Feel free to keep editing and improving the article, or other articles (like Odwalla, my pet project!) :) Intothewoods29 ( talk) 00:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Haha thanks for helping out on Odwalla! ;) I didn't know in which category I should put World Science Festival on WP:GA, so I put it under Chemists and materials scientists, so you might want to change it! I meant to tell you, but it slipped my mind! <:) Intothewoods29 ( talk) 03:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Just a little note - it could probably use a good specialist review! :) Awadewit ( talk) 07:41, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Reception history of Jane Austen, one of the daughter articles for Jane Austen, is up for peer review here. I would appreciate your thoughts. Awadewit ( talk) 20:53, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
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Re: "thanks": great. I'm available to help with getting any science articles through FAC; if you know people struggling to get over the hump, let me know. - Dan Dank55 ( send/receive) 22:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if you might be able to help bring introduction to special relativity to the level of accessibility and quality as introduction to general relativity. The contrast between the two on both counts is quite striking. Thanks! Vassyana ( talk) 16:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Photon is up for featured article review. I know that WillowW worked very hard on this article - it is too bad she is gone at the moment! Awadewit ( talk) 17:21, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
You might be interested in the accessibility discussion ensuing at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Acid dissociation constant. Awadewit ( talk) 19:02, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Quark is at FAC again. I know that you commented at the last FAC, so I thought you might want to comment again. :) Awadewit ( talk) 00:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
I've made some replies. I have to be honest - I'm no expert, just an amateur physics lover who decided to try and get quark featured having read a lot of material on the subject beforehand. Some of your requests, which involve coverage of topics that seem to verge on the mathematical and higher level theories of particle physics, are quite beyond me. This is a big ask, but perhaps, seeing that you seem to have some knowledge of the area (having made the requests), you could use your expertise to chip in? If you were to contribute, it seems obvious that the article would be improved more efficiently and the overall product would be greater in quality and depth. If you can't, it's not a problem. Cheers, — Anonymous Dissident Talk 14:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Markus
I'm currently working on matrices. I think there are plenty of physical applications where I think it's best if somebody into the matter writes about it. Would be help out by adding some words about physics applications of matrices? The "see also" section of the article contains some key words I found interesting when browsing around, especially the quantum mechanics stuff. See you over there, if you want! Jakob.scholbach ( talk) 18:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
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Over the past four months, work has gone into improving this article further. We're starting to consider FA again, since the text is undergoing copyediting and each of your referencing concerns has been individually allayed. If you could give your opinion on the article before we do anything, it'd be appreciated. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 13:59, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've rewritten the second last paragraph of this to discuss color su(3). I've made the text there a bit shorter as it was verbose earlier. Could you take a look and tell me what you think/make corrections or additions? Thanks for any help. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 12:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
I thought that was a fairly appropriate reference for what the article's saying; what do you think? — Anonymous Dissident Talk 07:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
What was the problem with the statement? I suppose it might have been more accurate to say that the hadron spin is the sum of the quark spins and angular momenta, but, other than that, what's wrong? I do have a number of sources I can draw to prove the correctness of it. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 15:05, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Is quark ready for FAC, do you think? The reference issues are all addressed, I think. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 01:54, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Do you have any suggestions for a replacement sentence for the erroneous "SU(3)c introduction" one? — Anonymous Dissident Talk 13:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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The 2008 World Science Festival was a science festival held in New York City. The festival (May 28 – June 1, 2008) consisted mainly of panel discussions and on-stage conversations, accompanied by multimedia presentations. A youth and family program presented topics such as sports from a scientific perspective and included an extensive street fair. A cultural program led by actor and writer Alan Alda focused on art inspired by science. The festival also included a World Science Summit, a meeting of high-level participants from the worlds of science, politics, administration, and business. The festival was the brainchild of Columbia University physicist Brian Greene and his wife, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Tracy Day. It was held in partnership with major New York City cultural and academic institutions such as Columbia University, New York University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ( more...)
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General relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalises special relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time. In particular, the curvature of spacetime is directly related to the four-momentum of whatever matter and radiation are present. The relation is specified by the Einstein field equations. Some predictions of general relativity differ significantly from those of classical physics. Examples of such differences include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, and the gravitational time delay. General relativity's predictions have been confirmed in all observations and experiments to date. Although general relativity is not the only relativistic theory of gravity, it is the simplest theory that is consistent with experimental data. However, unanswered questions remain, the most fundamental being how general relativity can be reconciled with the laws of quantum physics to produce a complete and self-consistent theory of quantum gravity. ( more...)
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Jürgen Ehlers (1929–2008) was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity research group at Hamburg University, he held academic posts before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director. In 1995, he became the founding director of the newly created Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany. Ehlers' research focused on the foundations of general relativity as well as on the theory's applications to astrophysics. He formulated a suitable classification of exact solutions to Einstein's field equations and proved the Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorem that justifies the application of simple, general-relativistic model universes to modern cosmology. He created a spacetime-oriented description of gravitational lensing and clarified the relationship between models formulated within the framework of general relativity and those of Newtonian gravity. He had a keen interest in the history and philosophy of physics and was an ardent popularizer of science. ( Full article...)
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