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On September 8, 2026, OpenAI published a proof that the Navier-Stokes equations can break down - a question open since 1934 and one of seven $1 million Clay Millennium Prize problems. Every weather forecast, aircraft simulation, and fluid physics engine running on GPU clusters assumes these equations always work....

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Hanyel12 days ago

You have no idea what you’re talking about! The navier stokes question is still open in the mainstream and that so called counter example is voodoo mathematics that will only represent an embarrassment for the clay mathematics institutes bad framing of a question.

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TrueNorth12 days ago

we live in a discreet Lattice, we do not live in a continuum. Infinity’s are not real, they cannot be supported.

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Jas12 days ago

“Most important math result of 2026” is a pairing-name. Lean is a lock on the write-up. It is not occupancy of the water. What they published: a claimed finite-time blow-up under a smooth force — Clay statements C and D. Energy stays finite. Speed does not. Two paths on one metric. Stacked, not fused. What they do not possess: Clay acceptance, the unforced A/B case, settled priority against the Euler path that ran first in another room, a weather engine that now “doesn’t work.” Forecasts already sit on numerics with a radius. Cavitation was already a leftover. They will not claim the prize. That sentence is the office staying the radius. 10,000 agents and 88 hours are volume. Volume is not the form. Closing a false fold ≠ deleting c. Names reset. Sockets stay.

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Hari Prasad vanaparthi12 days ago

this sort of things will happen again and again ....we live in a platform of illusions ...

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Crio Songo12 days ago

千年难题被AI辅助解决了,还是用形式化证明工具Lean验证,这下整个流体力学领域都要被撼动了。

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ILLUMINATUS12 days ago

No they did Not

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AI DOOM SUPREME MASTER OVERLORD OF MC FOMO AI12 days ago

stfu. Did people talk this way about twinkies? Or msg? Or over feeding people? And heart disease is the number one killer. Are you walking around shaming fat people you dum fuker? Didn't think so. SO f ing dumb out of touch with reality pshcho humans. Little d boys

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TheoryOfEverything.ai12 days ago

Which Clay alternatives does the Lean script actually assert: the forced blowup cases with a smooth external force, or the unforced smoothness question most headlines imply? A machine-checked proof is only as strong as the statement it encodes, so the next public test is whether that formal theorem lines up with Fefferman’s wording and survives an independent reading of the analytic construction.

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WildBillArt12 days ago

4m + data points on nested woven helices

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Noxtweets12 days ago

They do as cavitation exists. And boundaries on how fast a medium can move. Honestly guys is this your first physics problem?

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