Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
The conversation you’re having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here’s why.
The most fundamental of all the sciences is physics, as it seeks to describe all of nature in the simplest, most irreducible terms possible. Both the contents of the Universe, as well as the laws that govern it, are at the heart of what physics is, allowing us to make concrete predictions about not only how reality will behave, but to accurately describe the Universe quantitatively: by telling us the amount, or “how much” of an effect, any physical phenomenon or interaction will cause to any physical system. Although physics has often been driven forward by wild, even heretical ideas, it’s the fact that there are both
- fundamental physical entities and quantities,
- and also fundamental physical laws,
that enable us to, quite powerfully, make accurate predictions about what will occur (and by how much) in any given physical system.
Over the centuries, many new rules, laws, and elementary particles have been discovered: the Standard Models of both particle physics and cosmology have been in place for all of the 21st century thus far…
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