Beyond the Light Barrier is an independent research project directed by Mark B. Koehn. OpenAI's ChatGPT is used extensively as an artificial-intelligence research tool in the development of this work.
AI assistance may include scientific literature discovery and analysis, exploration of theoretical models, mathematical analysis, computational modeling, simulation design, comparison of hypotheses with established physics, identification of unresolved problems, organization of research findings, and preparation of technical and plain-language publications.
Research questions, proposed directions, experimental objectives, interpretation, and decisions about which lines of investigation to pursue are developed through an ongoing interaction between the researcher and the AI system.
Responsibility for research direction, publication decisions, and claims presented by Beyond the Light Barrier remains with the human researcher. ChatGPT is not an author or independent scientific authority.
AI-generated calculations, references, interpretations, and conclusions are not assumed to be correct solely because they were produced by an AI system. Important scientific claims, calculations, and citations are independently checked, where practical, against primary scientific literature, mathematical analysis, independent calculation, computational reproduction, experiment, or external review as appropriate.
Exploratory models appearing on this site should not be interpreted as claims of experimentally demonstrated new physics unless specifically identified as such.
The classification and verification standards used to distinguish established evidence, accepted theory, published speculative theory, project hypotheses, analytic estimates, simulations, reproduced results, engineering concepts, and experimental results are described in the site's Research Method.
