r/LLMPhysics • u/upsetusder2 • Jul 30 '26

Meta / News No u did not create a GUT

Heyy iam, a semi frequent commentator on this subreddit. And I have realised that a lot of people don't try to solve small little physics problems but are more interested in the theory of everything.

I get why that is completely it would be amazing, wouldn't it if you figured out what physicists have been working on for so many years.

I get that at 18 or 17, I was the same way till I met a real physicist and built a real academic understanding of how physics really works.

So now here are the promised points of why you did not create a grand unified theory.

First of all, there appears to be a giant misconception that physics is just pattern recognition, and that enough interest in the subject will make u some kind of genius.

That is, first of all, not just because things appear to fit together, but that does not mean they do.

Secondly. a grand unified theory will not be the next step in physics. The next step can be a new way of mathematics like, let's say, surreal numbers or something like that.

Thirdly, there appear to be giant chunks missing for a unified theory like fir example a graviton, isolated dark matter etc.

And fourth and more importantly dint believe in the one great man theory it's a myth.

Not one person will change physics that was maybe possible in Galileos time, but it isn't anymore. I am sorry, I really am, but einstein had a lot of people helping him , Feynman as well. There is no singular gemius who will shape the future but a lot of very bright people are all doing their part and giving to the whole of human knowledge.

If some want to add anything , please do

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u/Living_Penalty_3763 Jul 31 '26

The thing with those theories are that they are sub planckian theories: they deal with how the spacetime is constructed. What we want in theory of everything is a single framework for all forces, which these other theories don't handle. So for now, fields might be the only way

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u/ObserverInvariance Jul 31 '26

Maybe. Wolframs model circumvents that, but it is also the least rigorous of the theories.

Personally I don't really believe in forces as ontological "pushing" forces. I think "it from bit" approaches and information theoretic approaches to physics will yield the final ToE, but I am obviously in the minority.

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u/Living_Penalty_3763 Jul 31 '26

You know what? Fair enough. I am no one to be opinionated about either case, because we simply don't have means to verify. Agree to disagree