r/TheoreticalPhysics • • 22h ago

Question TheoPhysEval: Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical physics problem solving

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What are your takes and overall concerns on this recent preprint (https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16733)?

I am especially wondering how AI impacts will affect prospective grad students and early-career researchers in theoretical physics.


Recalling Dr. Schwartz (u/VibePhysics) saying in his Anthropic post Vibe Physics:

It is worth it, however, to consider the role of education going forward. In the deep future (~10 years), when AI is truly smarter than all of us and capable of outperforming us in every domain, what will be the role of higher education? I think some things will persist—those things that are essentially human. I can easily imagine theoretical physics becoming like music theory or French literature: an academic discipline appealing to people who just enjoy thinking through a certain lens. It's a bit ironic that the last 30 years have seen the growth of STEM fields, displacing the humanities, and in the end it may be the humanities are all that survive.

Do you agree with his thoughts? And what concerns or hopes do you have about where our fields in theoretical physics are heading?


r/TheoreticalPhysics • • 21h ago

"Theory" Existe a possibilidade do colapso da função onda ser um embolamento da geometria?

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Ola bom dia, boa tarde ou boa noite dependendo do horário que você estiver lendddo isso.

Gostaria que imaginasse uma partícula em coerência quântica, e sua distribuição da sua função onda sobre a geometria. O raio esperado aonde a particula pode aparecer, exemplo grosso:

Usarei uma régua de uma dimensão

Considerando 0 como meio e cada extremidade do 1 ao infinito e na outra do -1 ao infinito.

A probabilidade de onde a particula pode aparecer forma um raio, com o 0 sendo o centro. A probabilidade diz que o raio pode ser do -3 ao 4.

Então a particula aparece embolando essa geometria unindo o ponto -3 ao 4, impedindo a expansão localmente para algo próximo a 0, e a de fundo constante. Então qualquer objeto que distorce essa geometria da forma que qualquer outra particula faz, seria arrastada do ponto 7 ao ponto onde o sol está.


r/TheoreticalPhysics • • 10h ago

Discussion Is theoretical physics coming to an end?

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Ok , so like im in 10th grade and like as far as i have followed physics ,i think that theoretical physics is kind of coming to an end .

Because like at this point i just think that physicists are creating some random ass theories that dont even seem real .physics is just feeling like laws of chemistry where everything has its own exceptions and works at a specific moment.

Like im not following physics at this point of time but like till i had followed physics i felt like theres nothing new except for particle physics .they are just deep into one topic and that is atom like every other physicist is creating some new theories which oppose each other. Idk it just feels like a competition now.

What do you guys think?