I always find this moves into the realm of religion
But then, I'm an engineer and can't really understand theoretical physics
Posted on 02/17/2026 12:41:44 PM PST by Twotone
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 has derived a new formula for gluon interactions, overturning assumptions of zero amplitude and advancing theoretical physics.
For a long, long time physicists treated this interaction as a cosmic impossibility — a mathematical dead end so absolute it was taught almost with the certainty of Newton's laws and the elegance of Einstein's equations. Zero, in quantum physics, isn't a shrug; it's a verdict. And this particular verdict had stood unchallenged for decades.
But every so often, science gets a jolt — a falling apple, a bending beam of starlight… or, in 2026, an AI model that refuses to accept “impossible” as an answer.
A new research paper co-authored by leading theoretical physicists and OpenAI researchers has revealed that this interaction, involving particles called gluons, can in fact, occur under very specific conditions. What's more, the key formula describing this interaction was first identified with the help from GPT 5.2, which simplified the complex equations and spotted a pattern that physicists hadn't fully recognised.
At the heart of this preprint, titled 'Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero', available on arXiv, are gluons — particles so fundamental that without them, matter itself wouldn't exist.
An internal scaffolded version of GPT-5.2 spent approximately 12 hours reasoning through the problem to generate the formula and a formal proof of its validity.
Gluons are essentially the smallest building blocks of reality known. They carry the strong nuclear force that binds fundamental subatomic particles (quarks) together, to form protons and neutrons. Without gluons, quarks would drift apart, atomic nuclei would collapse, and the physical world, as we know it, would fall apart.
Physicists study gluons to understand atoms, but also to understand the mathematical framework around reality and the forces governing it. These particles are described and understood by quantum field theory...
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There is a second level of evolution in play now. It is called progress but the unit of self replicating information is called a meme instead of a gene. It works much faster than biological evolution. Just look at all the change in our own lifetimes. We now have machines that process information completely outside of our bodies which share that information all over the World at the speed of light .
A Gluon is not unlike a tiny, super-strong particle that holds the fundamental building blocks of matter, called quarks, together inside protons and neutrons, effectively carrying the strong nuclear force that binds atomic nuclei.
Gluons are massless, allowing them to travel at the speed of light, but they're confined within hadrons (a composite subatomic particle made of quarks held together) due to the immense power of the strong force.
Inherently, we all know this, but proving it is difficult. Humans are a force of nature capable of infinate knowlege. Our human-invented AI models are accelerating this knowledge at a level never seen before in human history.
WOW...that’s some pretzel logic you’re projecting...and not unlike leftists’ psychotic “reality”.
Just be honest and acknowledge you reject God/Christ and embrace the humanism of satan/allah.
I always find this moves into the realm of religion
But then, I'm an engineer and can't really understand theoretical physics
If you fire a gluon at two slits will it smack its head?
“embrace the humanism of satan/allah.”
huh??
Islam is since the 10th century when it reject Mutawikkil logic, purely illogical.
Islam believes that Allah wills every aspect of the universe at every point in time. Which means that there is no such thing as cause and effect.
According to Islam, since Allah wills everything at every point, science is pointless as there can be no defined, repeatable consequences to an action.
Christianity believes in a God that created natural rules and lets those rules run.
Matthew 7:6
AI is going to create amazing mathematical equations that have absolutely nothing to do with the real world.
It will be the modern version of counting angels on the heads of pins.
On the islands in the Pacific the United States built airports in pursuit of victory over Japan. The natives enjoyed all that attention and good stuff that came their way. After the war was over the Americans went home.
The natives then built bamboo airplanes and control towers in an attempt to bring those Americans back. When someone is dedicated to a particular narrative to the point that any information contrary to that narrative is rejected the Cargo Cult is what you get.
“I encountered someone who truly believed the World was flat”
Really?
I find it interesting how the guy here just strung words together as a supposed “insult”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4338165/posts
The Flat Earth fellow chimes in at post 9. At first I thought he was just a prankster trying to yank our collective chains. The more I responded to this guy the more convinced I became that he actually believed it!
It is also interesting that the fellow who wrote the article was a genuine astronaut who use to believe in evolution then changed his mind. I've never believed otherwise and I can't ever see myself changing on that. Evolution is simply too beautiful of a theory , which explains so much , in such a clear way , there is no way I could let that go.
And quite frankly, God works in mysterious ways - for Him to create a man from dirt or to have dirt coalesce through myriad lifeforms to become homo sapiens, both are wondrous, don’t you agree?
I’ve had a fascination with Astronomy all my life. The incredible densities and energies of a Neutron star or the Space Warping properties of a Black hole are amazing things to contemplate. But the most amazing place in the Universe is right here on Earth. Life itself has so many twists and turns with so many incredible solutions it is certain to keep people busy discovering it all for a very long time
Oh, that's where the trouble starts. It's so likable, so beautiful, you just can't let it go.
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