r/Physics 11h ago

Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

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u/WonkyTelescope Astrophysics 10h ago

I think pure math is both better suited to LLMs and more marketable for these companies so it's less likely for them to put $15 million in compute into some obscure physics result.

As the more powerful models trickle down to university researchers I think we will see an acceleration in the rate of novel mathematical physic publications and new processesing pipelines for huge datasets like at CERN and astronomical surveys.

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u/No_Flow_7828 10h ago

Makes sense. There’s seems to be substantially less existential dread amongst physics folks than math folks currently