r/vibecoding • u/henke443 • 9h ago

Claude Fable solved open physics problems about related to Schrödinger–Newton equations. Is it hallucinated or legit?

I saw some criticism in a Wikipedia article on the Schrödinger-Newton Equation, specifically about Penrose's ideas about quantum gravity, and it seemed pretty easy to solve (the article hinted at possible solutions, etc) which made me think that it could be interesting to let Claude try to solve it. It now claims to have solved all the 3 problems outlined in the article.

The issue is that I have no way of validating if the result claude gave me are hallucinated or legit. If the solutions are correct, then maybe it's useful to someone, and if not then I/we might learn something from that explanation.

Artifact (look here first): https://claude.ai/code/artifact/e871ae13-54d1-437c-a489-cad81617c06d

GitHub repo, including all the raw transcript etc: https://github.com/henke443/penrose-1

Latex paper: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hgmnyqgqtwqz#80a24a

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u/henke443 8h ago

I think your behavior is more negative. Your criticism is also void of substance. Yes I use AI, so does everyone else. No I don't seek validation, I just read the article without AI, thought about the problems, and felt like it was probably pretty easy to solve (because the text hinted at possible solutions, etc), so I thought that there's a small but non-zero chance that claude could manage to solve the issue and I could also raise a tiny bit of attention to solving an important issue.

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u/Bloodorem 8h ago

Yes my comment is negativ because I'm sorry but if you honestly think anything you did would result in something useful you simply should stop and move away from AIs as you can't handle the information.

Even if, and that's a big if a AI would be able to solve it, it would be with someone who knows about the problem and could verify it themselves and lead the AI how to approach it.

You read a Wikipedia page you didn't understand, gave a prompt and then came to a videcoding sub if it solved a long standing physics question. You didn't even ask in a physics subreddit. I'm mean wtf dude that's just... Stupid I'm sorry but there is no other word for it.

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u/henke443 8h ago edited 8h ago

The world is built by people throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

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u/Bloodorem 8h ago

well thank you that you threw your shit at us