World Science Festival

Has Al tackled a problem in physics that has been open for more than half-a-century? @bgreene explains OpenAl's claim that a dominant component of the Standard Model of Particle Physics - so called, Yang-Mills Gauge Theory - has now been proven mathematically sound.

Euler wrote his fluid equations in the 1700s. A century later, Stokes and Navier added one thing Euler left out. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster explains the difference, and why that single term is what makes the problem so hard.

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The proofs came back correct and yet almost completely unreadable to a human, even a trained mathematician. Nevertheless, other AI systems understood them perfectly.

Tristan Buckmaster and Brian Greene discuss what it means when machines start talking in a language of their own.

How did Antarctic ice lead to a math breakthrough?

Does the universe have any “purpose” or directionality, or is purpose a strictly human construct?