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

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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