Claude Fable 5.2 Completes Black Hole Calculation That Physicists Had Left Pending for 23 Years
Claude Fable 5.2 completed a black hole calculation that physicists had left pending for 23 years, and physicists are said to have verified the work. In 1983, Stephen Hawking and Don Page proved that when a certain type of universe heats up, black holes form suddenly, as water does when it reaches its boiling point, but their method applies only to large universes; in 2003, physicists provided the calculation needed for small universes, but because the process was lengthy, no one completed it. Claude completed it essentially independently and found that in small universes, black holes likewise form suddenly.
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View original postFable 5.2 solved two open problems in theoretical physics related to black holes. In the first, Fable 5.2 completed a laborious calculation that had gone unsolved for 23 years. https://t.co/BdxZ7NkvhT
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Fable 5.2 solved two open problems in theoretical physics related to black holes. In the first, Fable 5.2 completed a laborious calculation that had gone unsolved for 23 years. https://t.co/BdxZ7NkvhT
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Claude Fable 5.2 cracked a black-hole calculation that physicists had left unfinished for 23 years.
A physicist has already checked the work, i.e. this is new knowledge in fundamental physics that came largely from an AI.
In 1983, Stephen Hawking and Don Page showed that when a certain kind of universe heats up, a black hole forms suddenly, like water hitting boiling point, but their method only worked for large universes.
In 2003, physicists laid out the calculation needed for tiny universes, but it was so long and tedious that nobody finished it, until Claude did it largely on its own and found that black holes form suddenly there too.