Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Googled Yang Mills quantum brainworms

 " . . .  so in no sense is a viable "completion of the Standard Model".

The press release goes on to claim:

As a subproblem, this work also includes a proof of the existence of pure Yang–Mills theory, which is part of the Quantum Yang–Mills Theory Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize problem⁠.

Now that the actual result has been released, it is clear that this claim is also extremely misleading. The Jaffe-Witten writeup of the problem explicitly states (page 12)

We specifically exclude weak-existence (compactness) as the solution to the existence part of the Millennium problem, unless one also uses other techniques to establish properties of the limit (such as the existence of a mass gap and the axioms).

This is exactly the sort of "existence" proof OpenAI has produced, and they have not separately established the mass gap or properties comparable to it.

This whole story is starting to remind me a lot of the Google quantum computer wormhole publicity stunt. We're seeing the same sort of fraudulent claims now being widely distributed in the media, e.g.:

Surely there's a lot more of this kind of thing to come . . . "  ( WOIT )

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