alt Hacker NewsHere’s an idea I would love to see play out. Have one of the labs train a new model, using cutting edge architecture, on a whole lot of data and math papers from before 1905. Then see if it can come up with, or even understand, Einsteins theory of relativity.
Special relativity is one of those unusual theories that requires very little in the way of math or concepts to understand. You take the data from the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment (which measures the same speed of light, despite different reference frames). You take the idea that the laws of physics work in any reference frame. You take some high-school math, et voilà, special relativity.