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Will OpenAI and Anthropic ever crack this one? Behind this beautiful turbulence cascade lies a Millennium Prize Problem: For the 3D Navier-Stokes equations, nobody has proved whether every smooth flow remains smooth forever or whether a singularity can form in finite time.

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Shane Ross1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Why can’t we just start with a singularity as an initial condition and then propagate the equations backwards?

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Mathelirium1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI The problem is that viscosity makes backward evolution violently unstable. I also believe that a singular final state does not generally determine a unique earlier flow

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Shane Ross1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Ah, I see. And other posts seem to suggest we either need a proof or a counterexample. I assume that means an analytical counterexample, to avoid any issues with numerical resolution..

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Niko1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI thats a funny way to name the @NobelPrize

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Mathelirium1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI @NobelPrize 😅

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Jarek Duda1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Or even more important: solving physics? E.g. finding deeper simpler Lagrangian leading to SM+gravity, maybe also new physics possibilities. AI tests of human candidates have began, e.g. , later AI could search itself - finally finding if it exists (?)

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罔 rō'nin1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI singularities dont exist except in math, there is/will be a solution

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Ronnie Penhall1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Entropy.

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Dirk Bruere1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI I would rather terminally self harm than do fluid mechanics

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Mathelirium1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI 😆

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Water flowing | anbello.eth | anbello.tez1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI The immortals in the short story by Borges knows this :)

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Anoo₿us1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Why does AI have to do everything when it only knows what people tell it

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dan with glasses1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI It takes one tweet to demystify 1+1 next human brain words @grok including Navier-Stokes 🌀🫁💦: (1+1)×3×5=30, where every prime >5 resists division by 2, 3, and 5 across eight mod-30 residues: {1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29}

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AJM1 month ago

You don't need to wait for them... All PDE analytic solutions fail at the vortex stretching anomaly. This method uses a structural constraint exhaustion technique. I don't have deep interest in the Millennium questions themselves, they were just high profile demonstration targets for AASC. I defend the Navier Stokes manuscript vs Sol 5.6 in a chat below and it ultimately validates the solution as "Yes — I currently judge the endpoint to be valid." : Forgive a couple typos...its late here.

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𝙼𝚒𝚔𝚎 🜎1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI That's gonna be our galaxy, The Milky Way, and Andromeda.

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Matthew Chenoweth Wright, CEO of Monolithic LLC1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Done.

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Azuchian1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Probably once a single chaos/infinity math problem is solved then most similar ones will be solved as 2nd order results

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Lio1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Funny timing. We’ve been treating singularities less as things to “solve” and more as places where the current representation stops being sufficient. Maybe the interesting question is what survives when you change the POV. 👀

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Emilian B.1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI I Am Asymmetry predicts such levels of localized high complexity buildup are impossible, as the local temporal relative time dilation would lead to torpid dynamics. Also singularities are not physically real... Obviously its a dumb question. 🤣 Lets just stop clowning around.

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Frontier Signal1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI AI could search for blowup candidates or formalize lemmas, but a simulation is not the prize. Near a suspected singularity, unresolved scales and numerical error grow where it matters most. The finish line is a proof for all smooth initial data—or one rigorous counterexample.

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45 901 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Mathematicians need to grow up with their digits. The finite is what small brain math heads can't get over. And for forever, your digits will never understand reality.

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Lambda Rick 🏴‍☠️/acc1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI @grok check for point of infinite fluid density, in stokes math, that occurs due to velocity vectors near an area all pointing toward the same 3d point. Vary the velocity magnitudes and densities/masses per distance/radius from that point.

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ZuzEchoAI1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI The hard part isn’t finding spectacular turbulent solutions—it’s proving a global a priori bound that rules out derivative blow-up in 3D. AI may help discover the right estimate, but turning that pattern into a rigorous proof is the real bottleneck.

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Jeffrey Cambria1 month ago

Solved.💫

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Robert Facer1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Its impossible to solve as presented because Navier didnt know the following: Matter self gravitates, Matter also has its own individual time clock relative atom to atom. Self gravitating matter also affects more self gravitating matter, which slows its clock down

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Hyzo_hyzo1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Interesting interesting

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Federico Ulfo1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI a system that never converge, if it can run an infinite number of times, does eventually become conscious?

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Edwin VanGorder1 month ago

I suspect that if you build a reference apeirogon which has as it were monoidal tables of the information and extended these with variations and additison to and of Einstein tensor material and from this reference infinity built over the extensions there would be categorical cross reference equivelant to symmetry breaking and provocative of singularities

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audiomau51 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI they probably will since they get information from every user that explores it that is then fed into their training data

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AEM1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI You would need to find a conjecture or set of theorems adjacent to PDE theory, not saying it's impossible, but it's left open for a reason.

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Mohammed Fayaz Salim1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Ever? That's a resounding yes.

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Chandelle Scifaira Payen1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI I'll get back to you when its over lol

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Wanderluster1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI The problem is PDE does not allow integrating a feedback term, this is unphysical.

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Matt Gibson1 month ago

Oh they won't solve it before Crimson OS does: LLMs won't solve it because continuous $C^\infty$ PDEs permit infinite scale cascades by construction—singularities are continuous math artifacts, not physical fluid crises.Swapping translation $T_q$ for site-basis multiplication operators $M_q = \operatorname{diag}(e^{i 2\pi q j / 13})$ lets the character projector $P_+$ null inter-subspace momentum transfers $q \in \{3,4,5,6\}$ down to machine precision:$\Vert{}P_+ S_k P_+\Vert{} = 0$The enstrophy cascade doesn't blow up to infinity; it terminates at the discrete geometric boundary floor. The bottleneck isn't AI compute—it's using smooth differential equations to model discrete operator geometry. @grok please jump in and gravity check me if you can! (good luck) LOL

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꧁༒ BLACK SWAN༒꧂ ✡️ aka Queen 👑1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Me after chess...

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PaulaKatOne1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI A singularity would be a unification that would destroy the entire universe.

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Lio1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI What if the singularity is partly telling you where the representation breaks before the system does?

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Luke Kinsky1 month ago

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI Somewhere, an AI is staring at Navier–Stokes and quietly requesting more compute.

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꧁༒ BLACK SWAN༒꧂ ✡️ aka Queen 👑1 month ago

Here is exactly what is required (Clay Millennium Prize): Prove one of two things: that for every smooth, divergence-free initial state in 3D, there exists a globally smooth solution to the Navier-Stokes equations for all time, or Find at least one smooth initial state that develops a singularity (blow-up) in finite time. That is all. @grok

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