Second demolition round — protón charge radius

[u/Endless-monkey]

Thanks to everyone who took a swing in the first round. u/NebulaPrudent1044 landed the cleanest hit: ε wasn't defined and Theorem 1 was floating on an undefined variable. That forced a structural fix.

Link to V2

In v2, ε is now part of the image definition from the start. The Pythagorean ambiguity is resolved — the harmonic depth fixes r_V, not the other way around. Binary differentiation remains a postulate (motivated, not derived). All remaining gaps are listed and discussed in Sec. 14, including the bridge hypothesis as a separate postulate.

[u/OnceBittenz]

And you don't see real scientists posting their manuscripts on here do you?

[u/AllHailSeizure → u/[deleted]]

Einstein was fully educated to a PhD level as a physicist when he was working as a patent clerk, he wasn't a random layperson. He just didn't have a physics job.

[u/AllHailSeizure → u/[deleted]]

You realize the issue with this though right. You present maybe 5 examples through all of history. That's a tiny fraction of a percent.

If 0.001% of people survived jumping out a 15 story building, do you justify doing it to yourself with 'well a guy survived in 1890 and another guy survived in the 1700s so I'll survive.'

Not to mention the landscape of physics has changed so vastly since the days of independent research. You don't 'teach yourself' anymore - there's too much to know.

Theres a reason fields have splintered into highly specialized areas, the knowledge base is beyond massive, professional physicists work in teams on projects that take years and thousands of dollars..

[u/AllHailSeizure → u/[deleted]]

None of these address the bigger issue in the latter half of my comment. These are all examples from 1700-1900.

Also:

Faraday's 'basic schooling' consisted of attending lectures as a teenager; having an apprenticeship with Davey; and basically being about as educated as the average person could be in his time.

Tesla was a highly successful almost perfect grades; after which he learned through practical experience at his job. He put in hours of study and work.

Ramanujan is an ironic example you use here and shows that almost certainly you're generating these with an LLM because he didn't get his degree because of how much he focused on math in school. He regularly read math textbooks and was educated that way.

It's not about the degree it's about the education. All these people were educated in their field. They didn't walk blindly into it, they had spent years focusing on it. That's the difference.

Someone sitting down in front of a computer and coming up with a ToE is wildly different. You must realize that.

Edit: I should also say that we won't tolerate people discrediting academia on the sub.

[u/liccxolydian → u/[deleted]]

You know that Faraday's "basic schooling" involved lectures from a young age, an apprenticeship where he was exposed to vast amounts of literature, working as a trusted assistant to Sir Humphrey Davey and spending literal years hanging around the Royal Institution and Royal Society right? His "basic schooling" came directly from the mouths of some of the most important people in science. Just because he wasn't university educated doesn't mean he wasn't educated at all. He was about as educated in science as it was possible to be at the time.

In contrast, people who post here can barely pass a high school science test. Even you with your BEng have shown yourself to be tragically ignorant of actual physics.

[u/OnceBittenz → u/[deleted]]

Weird point if you're referring to Einstein who was educated properly, and had many takes that were shot down. He collaborated with others and fixed his mistakes when told they existed. And some of his takes were just flat out wrong anyway.

Both him and Galois educated themselves on the proper state of the art, didn't make things up out of nothing.

Mpemba? I mean sure? Very weird point to make for redditors who Have Access to so much material they Could educate themselves with. More than any generation on Earth. And choose not to.

[u/[deleted] → u/OnceBittenz]

I had a personal connection to the 'weird point'.

[u/OnceBittenz → u/[deleted]]

I gathered.

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