Despite possessing the correct equations, physicists have been unable to calculate the mass of the proton from first principles with accuracy better than 3% after approximately 40 years of effort using the world's most powerful computers and large teams of researchers, illustrating that possessing the correct theory does not guarantee the ability to solve it.
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“we've been trying to do this for about 40 years now. Uh we can get it to within an accuracy of something like 3%... it's simply that we're not smart enough to solve it”
Source
Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong— The Royal InstitutionCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:55:31 PM
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