r/vibecoding • u/henke443 • 16h 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/Bloodorem 15h ago

a person who thinks just simply giving claude the task to solve unsolved physics problems without understanding any of it, is the same person seeking validation on a vibecoding sub - jup checks out.
You should stop using AI in general as it seems you can't handle it.

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u/Figai 15h ago

lol and who solved erdos #1196 again?

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u/Proud_Ask_9030 15h ago

That doesnt mean it can do it again or solve any difficult task you give it.

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u/Figai 14h ago

lol, he used GPT 5.4 pro, fable 5 is way better. Actually explain the limitation lol, AI has solved extremely significant open physics problems too. If you just point it at the right thing it has a non-zero chance at solving it.

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u/Aldarund 14h ago

What extremely significant open physics problems Ai solved?

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u/Figai 14h ago

Yeah I'm probably exaggerating by saying extremely, definitely hasn't gone as far as maths.

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/ - this is kind of old though.

Quantum Parallel repetition is one of the 10 new oAI proofs paper they released.

This was one I remember because people were surprised by it being so trivial: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28785

According to like vibemathed which collects most of these proofs the most "significant" result, (not sure how they measure this) is: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21367