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Thinking Harder with Gerard ‘T Hooft

2025· preprint· en· W4409711199 on OpenAlex
Rodney Bartlett

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Bibliographic record

VenuePreprints.org · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicEarth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
Canadian institutionsStantec (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEconomicsPhilosophyMathematical economics

Abstract

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On April 7 2025, Zeeya Merali wrote an article for the Foundational Questions Institute (https://qspace.fqxi.org/news/165296/gerard-t-hooft-and-13508-lhc-physicists-are-among-this-years-us$3million-breakthrough-prize-winners) which announced a special Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics was awarded to Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, one of the principal architects of the Standard Model of particle physics. Alongside this, 13,508 physicists at CERN were honored for their collaborative efforts at the Large Hadron Collider, where they’ve rigorously tested the Standard Model. The holographic principle, which states that information within a 3-D region of space can be encoded on its 2-D boundary, also originated with 't Hooft – although today it is not one of his favorite insights. People run away doing mysterious things with it, but they don't really build theories that I can understand," says 't Hooft. He also says - “when someone of the older generation tells you something cannot be done, don't believe them. You have to think harder than those old guys did, and that's always how breakthroughs get done.” I’d like to do my best to “think harder” and write a few brief comments on points mentioned in the article. They’re taken from my article in the science journal “IPI Letters” called “A Different Perspective on Cosmological and Quantum Phenomena That Involves the Temporal Multiverse and the Static Universe” (with some extra thoughts included). (1)

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.159
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it