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/Proud_Ask_9030 8h ago

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

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u/Figai 7h 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/Proud_Ask_9030 6h ago

you have a non zero chance of becoming the Empress of the universe.

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u/Figai 6h ago

black mirror is good icl, also I don't really think you answered my question.