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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by tbabb on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:45PM (#11084568)
> and the final series converges.

Or not, and we yell "look behind you!" and then dump the infinities out the window.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization

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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by Manishearth on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:46PM (#11084573)
Hah, that too :p

When I first learned about renormalization formally (i.e., with equations) I realized it wasn't that bad. But still, pretty sneaky :P

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