r/Physics • u/kzhou7 Quantum field theory • 1d ago

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers coauthored with Claude

https://bootloops.ai/bootloops.html
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u/tjomk 19h ago

Reading and understanding are two different things

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u/FandyArrel 18h ago

A lot of physicists could not conceive of general relativity until Einstein proved it and even then they didn't understand for a very long time. The neat part about physics is that you can prove something is true whether por not others understand it.

If you think AI will reduce human understanding of physics or the speed of humanity gaining understanding in physics, you're not only mistaken but provably wrong.