Reproducing a String Theory Vacuum in Rust

Why does this universe exist? Why is there anything at all?One night, I got tired of wondering about these questions, so I decided to roll up my sleeves and see if I might be able to help to figure out some answers. Because why not? So for the last six months, one of my new hobbies has been string theory research. I've spent many nights reproducing a frontier result in string theory, porting a Python physics library to Rust, and standing up a genetic algorithm on my home server that searches the "landscape" of string vacua for one that might explain dark energy.First: I am not a physicist, and I still don't really understand anything about string theory. I've had to learn everything from scratch, and almost all of the heavy lifting was done by AI coding agents. (AI is very, very good at physics and mathematics now.) Second: this work has not found a theory of everything, and it has not yet found a single verified dark-energy vacuum. What it has done is reproduce a published…