Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
by somenameforme on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:50PM
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His concept sounds odd. There will always be many hints of something yet to be discovered, simply by the nature of things influencing other things.
For instance spectroscopy enables one to look at the spectra emitted by another 'thing', perhaps the sun, and it turns out that there's little streaks within the spectra the correspond directly to various elements. This is how we're able to determine the elemental composition of things like the sun.
That connection between the pattern elements create in their spectra was discovered in the early 1800s, and was perhaps one of the first big hints of quantum mechanics even though we're still more than a century before we even get to relativity here, let alone quantum mechanics.
For instance spectroscopy enables one to look at the spectra emitted by another 'thing', perhaps the sun, and it turns out that there's little streaks within the spectra the correspond directly to various elements. This is how we're able to determine the elemental composition of things like the sun.
That connection between the pattern elements create in their spectra was discovered in the early 1800s, and was perhaps one of the first big hints of quantum mechanics even though we're still more than a century before we even get to relativity here, let alone quantum mechanics.