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This isn't really a question as such, but rather an add for another stackexchange proposal which is likely of interest to at least a few of the users here. I know this is off topic, even for meta, so I'll understand if this gets closed/deleted. I only take the liberty of posting this following a suggesting from one of the mods.

At the moment, there is a Theoretical Physics proposal on Area 51, which is at 77% commitment. There are already enough low rep users, but in order to progress to beta we still need more users with over 200 rep. Although there is currently a Physics.SE it is at a pretty basic level (think math.se rather than MathOverflow), and so the current proposal is for a physics site made in the image of this site (TCS.SE) which would be explicitly research level only.

TCS.SE currently has quite a lot of quantum info people for whom the new site may hold some interest. It might also be of interest from the perspective of statistical mechanics, which is showing up more and more in TCS.

In any case, if this proposal sounds of interest to you, I hope you'll consider committing so that we can progress to beta soon and make the site a reality.

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    $\begingroup$ I committed way back :). $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Sep 2, 2011 at 20:04
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    $\begingroup$ I posted about this on my blog just now. $\endgroup$
    – Aaron Sterling
    Sep 2, 2011 at 20:08
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    $\begingroup$ @Suresh: Actually what's currently letting us down is our "commitment score" which is adversely affected by the age of some of the commitments. If you could uncommit, and the recommit it would give us a bump. We're at 100% and 98% on the other two metrics. $\endgroup$
    – Joe Fitzsimons
    Sep 3, 2011 at 5:52
  • $\begingroup$ By the way, thanks everyone for your help. We jumped 10% in the last 12 hours. $\endgroup$
    – Joe Fitzsimons
    Sep 3, 2011 at 5:53
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    $\begingroup$ @Joe, another meta site that you may want to consider for advertising is meta.stats.SE, there are probably some statistical physics researchers around there that might be interested in the proposal. $\endgroup$
    – Kaveh
    Sep 3, 2011 at 6:25
  • $\begingroup$ @Kaveh: Thanks, I will try there. $\endgroup$
    – Joe Fitzsimons
    Sep 3, 2011 at 6:31
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    $\begingroup$ hah ! I did as Joe suggested, and got the score up to 89% :) $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Sep 4, 2011 at 2:21
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    $\begingroup$ Thanks @Suresh! $\endgroup$
    – Joe Fitzsimons
    Sep 4, 2011 at 4:14
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    $\begingroup$ Congratulations! $\endgroup$
    – Aaron Sterling
    Sep 8, 2011 at 2:57

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Thanks everyone. We hit 100% last week, and I believe the beta will be starting this week.

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    – Suresh Venkat
    Sep 12, 2011 at 4:04
  • $\begingroup$ The beta seems to have started, but the link in the email inviting me to participate doesn't seem to work. I'll look at it in a week. $\endgroup$
    – Peter Shor
    Sep 15, 2011 at 18:36
  • $\begingroup$ @Peter: You can just go to theoreticalphysics.stackexchange.com In any case, it's great to have you on board! $\endgroup$
    – Joe Fitzsimons
    Sep 15, 2011 at 18:38
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Another potential way of advertising, is to write a cstheory blogpost about your question:

Physics results in TCS?

and include a plug for phtheory at the end. If you wet the csers appetite with a little physics used in TCS then they might be more tempted to learn more at phtheory.

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