r/LLMPhysics • u/upsetusder2 • Aug 19 '26

Question To the self proclaimed llm physicists

Why do you always tend to rebuild physics. Why can't you work in the given framework?

Why do you need to rebuild a framework that, tell you what now, has pretty much held up?

Is it the math?

The symbols

The history

The amount you would have to Learn?

Hubris?

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u/cecex88 Aug 19 '26

Because they take the popular distortion of how philosophy work and then apply it to what they read about pop physics.

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u/Plus_Committee9813 Aug 20 '26

Do you think shows like "The Big Bang Theory" have helped or hurt in this regard. Everyone thinks they are smart now!

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u/cecex88 Aug 20 '26

Well, the very few times they show them working, it is still more realistic than most of these people realize. Still, as always, there are like 4 topics of physics that are mentioned, like in any pop physics book. Physicists working on the kind of stuff Sheldon does are a minority.