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Vibe physics: The AI grad student
Science Vibe physics: The AI grad student Mar 23, 2026 Can AI do theoretical physics? In this guest post, professor of physics Matthew Schwartz decided to find out by supervising Claude through a real research calculation, start to finish, without ever touching a file himself. His account of what happened is below. Summary I guided Claude Opus 4.5 through a real theoretical physics calculation, encapsulating the complexity of code and computations behind text prompts.
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