Thanks for sharing this! Your journey from feeling magnets in a shop to being cited by renowned established institutes is a stunning testament to how AI allows the human mind to bypass traditional gatekeeping and translate raw intuition into rigorous insights.
You mentioned that GIFT was born from a narrative need for a "beautiful story". I'm curious: do you believe that the most fundamental laws of the universe are inherently aesthetic, or is our attraction to "beauty" just a useful cognitive shortcut for finding order in the chaos?
I will answer with a sidestep: I think your suggestions are 2 sides of the same coin.
I believe fundamental laws are inherently ‘ordered’, but we haven’t fully grasp the rules yet, and what appears as aesthetic (beauty, harmony, balance…) to us, is just a rudimentary tool to try to find order in the chaos, as you said.
Thank you! And I think you're onto something real there: There's a kind of freedom in coming to a technical field without having been trained to see it a certain way. You don't know which questions are "supposed" to be hard, so you sometimes ask the ones that specialists have stopped asking.
Honestly, I didn't reach out, they found my work, and from there I got to attend my first academic workshop, remotely but still: Banff, Canada. Real mathematicians. Slightly terrifying...
Thanks for sharing this! Your journey from feeling magnets in a shop to being cited by renowned established institutes is a stunning testament to how AI allows the human mind to bypass traditional gatekeeping and translate raw intuition into rigorous insights.
You mentioned that GIFT was born from a narrative need for a "beautiful story". I'm curious: do you believe that the most fundamental laws of the universe are inherently aesthetic, or is our attraction to "beauty" just a useful cognitive shortcut for finding order in the chaos?
I will answer with a sidestep: I think your suggestions are 2 sides of the same coin.
I believe fundamental laws are inherently ‘ordered’, but we haven’t fully grasp the rules yet, and what appears as aesthetic (beauty, harmony, balance…) to us, is just a rudimentary tool to try to find order in the chaos, as you said.
I believe so too! The universe is vast, and we still know little. Thank you for the inspiration today.
Artists and humanities folks sometimes are the best to ask technical or STEM questions because we see things from a macro perspective!!
Thank you! And I think you're onto something real there: There's a kind of freedom in coming to a technical field without having been trained to see it a certain way. You don't know which questions are "supposed" to be hard, so you sometimes ask the ones that specialists have stopped asking.
Yeah definitely 😄 how'd you reach out to universities or scientists with your findings?
Honestly, I didn't reach out, they found my work, and from there I got to attend my first academic workshop, remotely but still: Banff, Canada. Real mathematicians. Slightly terrifying...
https://www.birs.ca/events/2026/5-day-workshops/26w5525/participants
Badass!! 🤓🌟