Physics

physics.com

30 points·CynicusRex··13 comments

HyperPhysics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html

HyperPhysics is a fantastic website. Used it so often as an undergrad EEE student.

What's the background here? Seems like a great domain name without a lot of content...

It might depend on your background how much you can enjoy that. I am physicist, did not yet know this quote of Maxwell and think that it is pure gold. When I read it, I immediately thought:

"Dear James Maxwell, you nailed it."

For some reason I arbitrarily typed physics.com and was pleasantly surprised as well.

Definitely what I want to know, and why I upvoted it. I have to imagine commercial interests would pay a great deal of money for this domain, so it's intriguing it's held out, presumably for a long time, as a location of a simple HTML page with some quotes on it.

> presumably for a long time

Indeed: http://web.archive.org/web/20040810100957/http://www.physics...

Without ad-blocker there is an amazon ad-widget for selling physics-related books.

> "The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10-13cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 1028cm, the radius of the universe."

Well, it looks more like 41 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything than 42.

Edit: Well, it appears I was mistaken. I forgot to count 10^0 cm. The answer is 42. :-)

The HHGTTG cannot be wrong. You forgot to count 0. It is 42.

Whoever owns this domain is sitting on a lot of money. They should sell it to someone who has better use than quotes.

Then, instead of quotes, ads!

It has Amazon ads (for physics books) at the bottom.

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