There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment when chaos reveals itself as structure, when disorder folds into meaning, and when what seemed like an arbitrary universe unveils itself as a system governed by hidden symmetries.
  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I was gonna say it’s sciencey sounding dribble wrapped in pseudo-poetic gush. ChatGPT is my main suspect.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      It reads like someone trying to sound smart, but failing. I’ve used ChatGPT to explain abstracts of scientific papers, and it never sounds like this. This was written by a human.

      ChatGPT is actually rather critical of the article:

      It’s definitely well-written and poetic, but it does seem heavy on grandiose language that might obscure the actual scientific content. The core idea—reformulating the Bekenstein bound using a toroidal structure and relating it to entropy, quantum mechanics, and cosmology—is intriguing, but the argumentation is somewhat buried under metaphorical and philosophical flourishes.

      If the goal is to make a technical argument, it could benefit from a clearer, more structured explanation of the key mathematical and physical insights. Right now, it reads more like a mix of scientific exposition and philosophical reflection, which makes it engaging but also somewhat vague.

      What exactly changes in the equations? How does this solve the cosmological constant problem? These aspects should be spelled out more clearly.

      • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        How could a human be dumb enough to talk about the Bekenstein bound having something to do with the shape of galaxies, but them seamlessly go from there to talking about the shape of flowers? Flowers have nothing to do with the Bekenstein bound. Of course it’s dubious even for galaxies. And anyone who has studied basic classical mechanics or ODE’s knows that harmonic oscillators occur everywhere in nature. Unforced ones give circular or elliptical orbits, and forced ones (meaning the eigenvalues are not purely imaginary) give spirals, inward or outward depending on the sign of the real part.

        Human or ChatGPT, meh, maybe you are right that it was written by a human, at least partly. But I’ve seen flowery though meaningless language come out of ChatGPT before.

        Anyway, it’s crap.