Comment by frotaur

I'm sorry, but 'not being surprised if LLMs can rederive relativity and QM from the facts available in 1900' is a pretty scalding take.

This would absolutely be very good evidence that models can actually come up with novel, paradigm-shifting ideas. It was absolutely not obvious at that time from the existing facts, and some crazy leap of faiths needed to be taken.

This is especially true for General Relativity, for which you had just a few mismatch in the mesurements like Mercury's precession, and where the theory almost entirely follows from thought experiments.