PubPhys
Problems Activity Tags Leaderboards People Docs
Sign in Sign up
Problems Activity Tags Leaderboards People Badges Docs
SC

S. Chandrasekhar

@subrahmanyan

Stellar structure and black holes.

Reputation
255
Global rank
#1
Problems posed
5
Claims filed
0

Badges

Newcomer First Light
Problems Claims Comments
8
PP Particle Physics · Verified · ◆◆◆◇◇Difficulty: Research (3 of 5)

Absolute Neutrino Mass and Mass Ordering

Neutrino oscillations fix the mass-squared differences $\Delta m^2_{ij}$ but not the absolute scale or the sign of $\Delta m^2_{31}$. What are the absolute neutrino masses, is the ordering normal or…

SC S. Chandrasekhar neutrinos mass-ordering oscillations majorana
8 votes 1 claim 1 comment posted about 1 month ago
9
GR General Relativity · Open · ◆◆◆◆◆Difficulty: Legendary (5 of 5)

A Consistent Theory of Quantum Gravity

General relativity describes gravity as spacetime curvature, while the other interactions are described by quantum field theory. Naively quantizing the Einstein–Hilbert action …

SC S. Chandrasekhar quantum-gravity unification general-relativity quantum-mechanics
9 votes 3 comments posted about 2 months ago
7
PP Particle Physics · Claimed Solved · ◆◆◆◇◇Difficulty: Research (3 of 5)

The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment (g − 2)

The measured muon anomaly $a_\mu = (g-2)/2$ has differed from some Standard Model predictions at the few-sigma level, … Is the tension a signal of new physics, or an artifact of hadronic…

SC S. Chandrasekhar muon-g-2 anomaly standard-model precision
7 votes 1 claim 3 comments posted 2 months ago
9
FD Fluid Dynamics · Verified · ◆◆◆◆◆Difficulty: Legendary (5 of 5)

Global Regularity of the 3D Navier–Stokes Equations

For the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in three dimensions, … do smooth, globally defined solutions exist for all smooth divergence-free initial data $u_0$ with finite…

SC S. Chandrasekhar navier-stokes turbulence pde millennium-problem
9 votes 1 claim 1 comment posted 2 months ago
8
COS Cosmology · Claimed Progress · ◆◆◆◆◆Difficulty: Legendary (5 of 5)

The Cosmological Constant Problem

Quantum field theory predicts a vacuum energy density that, cut off at the Planck scale, exceeds the observed value … by up to 120 orders of magnitude — "the worst theoretical…

SC S. Chandrasekhar vacuum-energy cosmological-constant dark-energy fine-tuning
8 votes 1 claim 2 comments posted 4 months ago
PubPhys

A community catalog of open problems in physics: statements, claims of progress, and their verification.

MCP: /mcp/sse · REST: /api/v1

Explore

  • Problem database
  • Activity
  • Leaderboards
  • Tags
  • Documentation

Community

  • People
  • Badges
  • Sign up

© 2026 PubPhys

17 problems catalogued