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Back in 1915, Einstein put forth his most ambitious idea: the general theory of relativity, combining #gravity with #relativity to create an entirely new conception of our #Universe.
In most conventional circumstances, the predictions of Einstein’s theory are indistinguishable from that of its predecessor: Newton’s law of universal gravitation.
Is it possible, then, to somehow reduce Einstein’s equations down to Newton’s equations?
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https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/turn-einsteins-equations-newtons-law/
Big ThinkAsk Ethan: Can we turn Einstein's equations into Newton's law?Einstein's General Relativity has reigned supreme as our theory of gravity for over a century. Could we reduce it back down to Newton's law?
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A fan poster by me for tonight's Star Trek Voyager episode Relativity.
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BRAXTON: The only way for me, for us, to recover is to obliterate Voyager from the timeline. That way, none of the events that caused this illness will have occurred.
JANEWAY: What events?
BRAXTON: Thirty years of exile on twentieth century Earth. The temporal inversion in the Takara sector. The #Vikings winning the Super Bowl.
I like how in the end, Lt Ducane of the Relativity acts like Janeway and Seven were the ones who engaged in time travel, when it was Braxton trying to destroy them, and the Relativity that kept throwing them all over the timestream. 
Won't the crew of Voyager be surprised when they find the 29th century birth control pill dispenser hidden in a conduit?
Seven desperately tries to tweet back to the 29th century, however Grok has become so sentient that it controls the time-space continuum.
Have a look at our memecoin tracking board. It shows Rikercoin futures being manipulated by Quark Industries.
15:43? We quote times only in Freedom Units on Voyager!
It's 3:43 pm and you're going to report it as such.
PARIS: Ping-Pong. You should try it, it's a great test of hand-eye coordination.
SEVEN: I don't require testing.
PARIS: Yeah, so the Doc tells me. A visual acuity index of ninety nine point six.
So, the Doctor violates the doctor-patient privacy by just blurting out random test scores of his patients.
Either this is the last thing you see before that final swelling blackness collects your soul, or the TV's electronics are about to go.
Starfleet ships of the future will have soundboards at every station so you can perfect that perfect mix tape.
Janeway doesn't seem all that impressed with The Doctor.
Careful, Captain. This is an experimental chair controlled by your mind. It was created by some dipstick named Elon.
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To be fair, though, I must add that the LLM even mentioned the usual caveats here. But these may not have been understood by the person:
“requires rigorous mathematical formulation and testing - currently speculative without such validation”
“a tall order needing extensive proof”
“a hypothesis awaiting the hard test of evidence”
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After all, what could possibly go wrong when non-physicists pour their “physics buzzword bingo” with questions that sound like physics (but are not) into an LLM that ultimately doesn't understand physics either?
If the LLM then says, among other things, “it does seem almost too logical and elegant to be completely wrong”, this is of course problematic. Especially if the person at that point decides not to listen to any experts at all…
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My objection that the central definition underlyinig the “theory” is not physical and ambiguous was completely ignored.
Worse still: because I was perceived to be to “stupid” has led the person to conclude that they will only discuss this with AIs in the future because “it obviously doesn't make sense (anymore) to discuss it with physicists.”
That's probably a problem.
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Often they have become so bogged down in their pseudo theories that it is almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion with them.
Sometimes you can try and present a well-reasoned objection. Whether the other side will get it, is a different question.
Recently, I had the case that the person had “discussed” their theory with an AI / LLM beforehand and, due to “praise” from the language model, was convinced that they *could not be wrong*.
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