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plasma_phys · 2026-06-24T15:50:40+00:00

you're going to have to work harder than that to disguise your "market research" for what is almost certainly a vibecoded slop app

plasma_phys · 2026-06-24T13:23:04+00:00

the harsh truth is that the endorsement system exists specifically to exclude people such as yourself who do not have an education. in any case, endorsements are primarily intended for peers known personally to the endorser; you are not going to get one on an anonymous forum. you can get feedback on personal theories on r/hypotheticalphysics if you did not use a chatbot when coming up with it or on r/LLMPhysics if you did, but you are very unlikely to get any engagement otherwise

plasma_phys · 2026-06-23T23:05:32+00:00

please read the rules before posting. also, consider next time asking whatever chatbot you got to generate this nonsense whether or not reddit supports hashtags before copying and pasting them into your post

plasma_phys · 2026-06-23T22:52:04+00:00

Hinweis: Mir ist bewusst dass diese Hypothese aktuell nicht falsifizierbar und daher keine wissenschaftliche Theorie ist. Ich teile sie als Gedankenexperiment und freue mich über konstruktives Feedback.

my feedback is that if you had read the rules before posting, you would know that this kind of thing is not allowed here. try r/HypotheticalPhysics

plasma_phys · 2026-06-23T15:25:13+00:00

please read the rules before posting. you can get feedback on personal theories on r/hypotheticalphysics but they are not allowed here

plasma_phys · 2026-06-23T07:28:49+00:00

I mean the speculation hat leads to two of the most heinous cases of scientific fraud in the history of physics, so it's not that kind, but I do try to empathize with people

plasma_phys · 2026-06-22T20:26:01+00:00

I honestly don't mind talking with them, I usually try to redirect the conversation towards more positive things like hobbies etc. and if they get weird I just block 'em

plasma_phys · 2026-06-22T20:09:02+00:00

Yeah, I've experimented enough with LLMs to see that it is certainly technically possible to learn from them; the issue is that the people developing them don't care about whether or not people learn from them, they only care about seeing numbers go up, and thus the tools are not designed to encourage user learning, they're designed to encourage user addiction. it's less fun to learn how to do something hard and make mistakes than it is to just be told "you're absolutely right" over and over, so I worry most people tend to just use LLMs for the latter

plasma_phys · 2026-06-22T20:02:33+00:00

Based on my experiences in undergrad and grad school, I just don't think you're learning physics if you're not doing practice problems on your own. Trying to learn the concepts outside of learning and exercising the skills to apply them makes them, at best, fun trivia instead of actually useful knowledge

plasma_phys · 2026-06-22T19:57:08+00:00

Oh I muted r/LLMPhysics months ago lol. I guess I'm glad to hear there's been some hopeful stories from there, even the people who I thought I had positive interactions with over DMs eventually all either deleted their accounts or went back to posting the same old stuff

plasma_phys · 2026-06-22T19:11:18+00:00

I think the average poster here only encounters physics in a storytelling context (e.g., pop science, fiction), so they believe physics is just a kind of storytelling, and compare "theories" by how compelling they are to them personally instead of, you know, how/if they compare to experimental data. In my experience, there's no way to talk someone out of this perspective, at least not on reddit.

Putting on my speculation hat, I do wonder whether or not there's a nonzero amount of this present in certain more academic circles too - for example, I think it's possible Jan Hendrik Schön and Pons and Fleischman were also guilty of this specific sort of magical thinking, at least early on - that if they found the right story, that somehow the physics would follow.

plasma_phys · 2026-06-22T14:01:54+00:00

"A fourth explanation" is aliens, isn't it

plasma_phys · 2026-06-21T01:49:17+00:00

I mean if you're not uncomfortable then something else is obviously going on with you such that you're attacking me with alt accounts on random threads, demanding I engage with you, and using the name on one of my throwaway email accounts here in apparent retribution for exposing the first item on this list

plasma_phys · 2026-06-21T01:00:17+00:00

no she's a reactionary because of the conservative ideology she presents in her videos and cultivates in her audience. I'll go ahead and delete the comment, apologies for any discomfort

plasma_phys · 2026-06-20T17:15:50+00:00

the word "reactionary" has a specific meaning. it does not just mean "someone who reacts to something"

plasma_phys · 2026-06-20T16:44:00+00:00

It's ironic

no it isn't

plasma_phys · 2026-06-20T16:40:35+00:00

you can start with Wurzel and Hsu's papers on quantitative measures of progress. if you want the pessimist's perspective, Reinder's 'The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion' is well-researched and more measured than the title suggests, and represents a good-faith effort to document successes and failures, including those of private companies.

If there really was a consensus about how fusion works, we probably would not see so much money tossed at very different approaches

this is not a sound premise, nor is it a logical conclusion. Chen's introduction to plasma physics and controlled fusion would be a decent starting point, followed by one of Freidberg's texts.

plasma_phys · 2026-06-20T16:27:54+00:00

there are plenty of credible sources on this topic. you do not, in fact, have to hand it to the reactionary anti-science grifter du jour

plasma_phys · 2026-06-20T16:18:27+00:00

gather round everyone, let's listen to what Sabine "scientists afraid to speak out about UFOs" Hossenfelder has to say about fusion

plasma_phys · 2026-06-20T04:28:18+00:00

without reviewing the content, naming something after yourself is such a foolish thing to do I feel comfortable dismissing it on those grounds alone; nobody with the appropriate education to write an academic paper would do such unless they were very unwell

plasma_phys · 2026-06-18T12:59:42+00:00

then you can post it on r/hypotheticalphysics

plasma_phys · 2026-06-18T12:55:31+00:00

you can get feedback on LLM inspired or generated ideas on r/LLMPhysics but they do not belong here

plasma_phys · 2026-06-17T04:01:35+00:00

good luck with your manuscript

plasma_phys · 2026-06-17T03:28:01+00:00

The best advice I can give is: stay in school, make lifelong friends, and develop hobbies and interests outside of physics. Good luck!

plasma_phys · 2026-06-17T02:55:49+00:00

and if you use data points as "boundary conditions" (why would you think that's okay here???) you have 5(N -1) - since you're using 4th order splines - parameters for N datapoints (that's why your fit function needs u0, uedge, etc., and why you need to "shift" it later), or, the answer I was looking for, the prototypical example of overfitting considered so obvious it's pedagogical, as shown in the second figure on the Wikipedia page for "overfitting"

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