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Edit: The paper is total nonsense. Sorry for wasting people's time.

https://youtu.be/Yk_NjIPaZk4

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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I looked a little more closely at the paper and I'm no theoretical physicist but some of this looks pretty dubious on the surface. I don't know but it might just be nonsense.

For example:

The masses of electrons, muons, and tau can be explained by the different curvatures of universe, galaxy, and solar system, respectively.

Also, a search for some of the authors reveals that they publish on what seems like an odd range of topics, from materials science, through medicine and machine learning, to theoretical physics:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Pobporn-Danvirutai/5893053

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Chavis-Srichan/48952334

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The masses of electrons, muons, and tau can be explained by the different curvatures of universe, galaxy, and solar system, respectively.

Yeah, that sounds like numerology. All three of those things are the same vague piles of dust, as far as fundamental physics is concerned.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sabine Hossenfelder just released a video confirming that the paper is total nonsense:

https://youtu.be/Yk_NjIPaZk4?si=dasxM2Py-s654djW