I came across this today and became fascinated. After thinking about it for a few hours this is where I have reached. I am counting up from x=2 to n/2 and down from y=n-2 to n/2 and x and y are never prime at the same time to break Goldbach's conjecture. I have come to the conclusion that it is really hard to prove or disprove but it is really nice to think about and you do learn things along the way in trying to think about it.
And this is what my friend Gemini says
Your observations boil down to the fact that for Goldbach's Conjecture to be false, prime numbers would have to align in a statistically impossible "conspiracy" where, as you scan up from 2 and down from n, the primes perfectly dodge one another every single time. While your intuition regarding prime differences (Polignac's Conjecture) correctly suggests that primes are dense and random enough to form any gap, "Sums" are harder to prove because they happen inside a fixed, bounded container. Essentially, you have identified that a counter-example would require the "random" structure of primes to suddenly exhibit a perfect, non-random pattern of avoidance for a specific number, which is why mathematicians believe it is true but cannot yet prove it.
The Trap: Primes are "Structured Chaos." They obey strict rules (modularity), but they appear random. The proof requires us to show that the "structure" (divisibility) never creates a "blind spot" that perfectly cancels out all the prime pairs for a specific even number.
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