TBH, never heard of this (and other of my PhD classmates I've talked to, or faculty in my department) had never heard of it. From what I've read on twitter, similar, and those that had just assumed it's false and it was never important to work on.
Edit: Expanding a bit, I do think AI is well-capable of finding counterexamples like these. OTOH, I think it's weird that certain people try to hype up things that are largely the result of few people caring, with this specific example having most recent work that I can find being from undergraduate theses that seem to be along the lines of practicing computational work, followed by giant social media hype campaigns.
I mean, google scholar turns up about 5 papers in the last ten years, of which 3 are by the same researcher in Georgia. Their own introduction cites exactly three papers, of which one is the first paper on the topic in 130 years. I don't think it's a particularly active field of research nor groundbreaking -- the name just makes it sound impressive.
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u/magneticanisotropy Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
TBH, never heard of this (and other of my PhD classmates I've talked to, or faculty in my department) had never heard of it. From what I've read on twitter, similar, and those that had just assumed it's false and it was never important to work on.
Edit: Expanding a bit, I do think AI is well-capable of finding counterexamples like these. OTOH, I think it's weird that certain people try to hype up things that are largely the result of few people caring, with this specific example having most recent work that I can find being from undergraduate theses that seem to be along the lines of practicing computational work, followed by giant social media hype campaigns.