🎱 Physics Reasoning

Teaching Lyra
How the World Works

Spatial and physical reasoning challenges verified by human intuition. Builds a dataset of causal reasoning pairs — one of the hardest capabilities to train in AI.

What Happens
Next?

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Gravity Challenge

A bowling ball and a tennis ball are dropped from the same height in a vacuum. Which hits the ground first?

✓ They hit at exactly the same time (no air resistance)
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Projectile Motion

A ball rolls off a table moving horizontally at 5 m/s. What happens immediately after it leaves the edge?

✓ It curves downward while moving forward (gravity + inertia)
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Displacement

An ice cube melts completely in a full glass of water. What happens to the water level?

✓ It stays the same (ice displaces its own melt weight)

Causal Reasoning Is
AI's Hardest Problem

🤔 Intuitive Physics

Humans develop physical intuition from birth. AI must be explicitly taught what happens when objects collide, fall, or interact.

⚡ Cause and Effect

Each labeled response teaches Lyra a (situation → outcome) mapping — building a model of causality from human common sense.

🌍 Grounded in Reality

Unlike abstract language tasks, physics reasoning is grounded in how the real, physical world actually behaves.