Authors of scientific papers have used Physics Forums to write popular explanations of their research.
[1][2][3] Notable members and blog authors past and present include John C. Baez,[4] Urs Schreiber,[5] Antony Garrett Lisi.
[7][8][9] Physics Forums was started as a school project in the spring of 2001 by Greg Bernhardt.
[10][non-primary source needed] Physics Forums entered content partnerships with Scientific American magazine in 2005.
[11] In 2025, two writers on the blog "Hall of Impossible Dreams" wrote that Physics Forums had been using large language models to generate content, posting it via abandoned user accounts.