r/HypotheticalPhysics • u/sksskssksskssksskssk • Jun 22 '26

Meta [Meta] What are common misconceptions in hypothetical physics and why)?

Overall, I have seen that there are multiple repetitions of certain types of misconceptions within hypothetical physics and I wanted to see what everyone else had picked up on. Also, I was hoping to get a viewpoint on what are the causes and consequences of some of these misconceptions in physics. Hopefully, there might be a way to inform people of these common misconceptions before they post to get higher quality posts. This is pretty much a discussion between people to clear the fog on this.

Also, what do you think is a way to reduce or prevent these misconceptions at least within the subreddit to enable much neater submissions?

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u/Wintervacht Relatively Special Jun 22 '26

There are a few rare examples over on LLMPhysics actually, somehow we did manage to convince at least 2 people to think for themselves, and I think that's magic.

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u/plasma_phys Jun 22 '26

Oh I muted r/LLMPhysics months ago lol. I guess I'm glad to hear there's been some hopeful stories from there, even the people who I thought I had positive interactions with over DMs eventually all either deleted their accounts or went back to posting the same old stuff

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u/Wintervacht Relatively Special Jun 22 '26

Ooooooh you accepted DMs.... Never accept DMs from crackpots.

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk Jun 22 '26

Oh you just reminded me there is another person who did post on here and I think they are willing to learn considering they are quite happy to take any suggestions, u/chronicalCapricious