[PW] Physics Blog or Sounding Board?

[Charles Early]

This address will work, but the primary site is http://arXiv.org, and it 
hasn't been at Los Alamos since 2001.  The founder of the service, Paul 
Ginsparg, feeling that Los Alamos didn't appreciate or support his work, 
left for Cornell then and took arXiv with him.  Los Alamos is now one of 
nearly twenty mirror sites worldwide.

Your patron may have a problem getting his paper accepted in arXiv, though 
it's not as restrictive as traditional journals.  According to the 
Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv.org_e-print_archive):

 >>
Although the arXiv is not 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review>peer-reviewed, an "endorsement" 
system was introduced in January 2004 as part of an effort to ensure 
content that is relevant and of interest to current research in the 
specified disciplines. The new system has attracted its own share of 
criticism for allegedly restricting inquiry. Under the system, an author 
must first get endorsed. Endorsement comes from either another arXiv author 
who is an endorser or is automatic, depending on various evolving criteria, 
which are not publicly spelled out. Endorsers are not asked to review the 
paper for errors, but to check if the paper is appropriate for the intended 
subject area. New authors from recognized academic institutions generally 
receive automatic endorsement, which in practice means that they do not 
need to deal with the endorsement system at all.
<<


At 02:16 PM 9/14/2007, you wrote:
>Hello Tod,
>
>A nuclear engineer of my acquaintance recommended this site:
>
>THE place to submit papers is the Los Alamos archive:
>
>http://xxx.lanl.gov/
>
>HTH
>
>Ellen C.
>
>
>
>Tod Owens wrote:
> > I have a patron who would love to post a complex theory he has that
> > draws upon various aspects of Physics on some appropriate scientific
> > website. Could anyone suggest any free message board or Physics site
> > where others in the field could read his posted paper and submit
> > feedback to him via his e-mail account?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Tod Owens
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