r/TheoreticalPhysics

7K archived posts · Jul 2012 – Sep 2026

Theoretical Physics

Post and discuss external content related to advanced research in physics. Remember to always back up your posts with reliable information, clear argumentation and verifiable sources. Professional or amateur self-theories and models are not welcome. This sub does not fear maths, so mathematical physics discussions are appreciated. Beware to post if you do not know what a Lagrangian is.

Created Jul 7, 2012

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Post and discuss any commentaries, opinions or external links related to advanced research in physics.

Remember to always back up your posts with reliable information, clear argumentation and verifiable sources. Professional or amateur theories and models are welcome as long as they are backed up by actual research.

This sub does not fear maths, so mathematical physics discussions are appreciated. Beware to post if you do not know what a Lagrangian is.

RULES

Be polite and civil: Follow the reddiquette, be polite and civil. People are free to challenge your ideas, do not be defensive if your ideas are dismissed or proven wrong.
No low-effort: Do not post off-topic content and leave a precise description
No self-theories allowed: Self-theories are not allowed, please try r/HypotheticalPhysics.
Questions: All questions are welcome as long as they are not masked as a self-theory and motivate further discussion. If you insist on asking about something you came up, make sure it fits some scientific standards i.e. be precise, give a thorough explanation and most importantly make sure this question is refutable. Remember r/theoreticalphysics is not an "ask" subreddit.
Descriptive titles: Submission titles should describe its content, posts with clickbaity, off topic or vague titles may be removed by the mods
Behind paywall: Please try and link to open access papers if possible.
Avoid predatory journals: Articles from predatory journals are discouraged and will be flaired as such.
Avoid pseudoscientific publications: Promoting fringe science and pseudoscientific publications is not allowed
No petitions, surveys or campaigning: Invitations to chat rooms and other subreddits, external petitions, promotional posts, fundraisers, questionnaires and external surveys are not allowed without a permission from the moderators.
Avoid AI tools: We do not allow posts written entirely or largely by large language models (LLM) like chatGPT or Gemini or any other AI tool.

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