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Physics Is Failing

How AI Works Without Laws

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Exploring ChatGPT
Jan 12, 2026
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Physics used to be about laws.
Clean equations. Universal rules. Statements that claimed to describe reality itself.

That confidence is starting to wobble.

AI is entering physics not as a new theory, but as a new way of deciding what explanations are good enough. Increasingly, models predict outcomes without producing human readable laws at all. They work. They generalize. They outperform theory.

And that raises an uncomfortable question.

If a system predicts reality better than our equations do, do the equations still matter in the same way.

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