Can AI Help Us Understand the Universe?

Why does the universe follow the rules it does? One of those rules involves a number that fascinated Richard Feynman: the fine-structure constant, known as alpha. It helps describe how light and charged particles interact. Physicists can measure it with extraordinary precision – but why does it have this particular value? Now physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has proposed Chain Theory, which begins with quantum entanglement and offers a possible way to calculate that number. At the same time, OpenAI says its AI models have produced mathematical results related to the theory of the strong force. The