Only by using a technique dubbed “renormalization,” which involved carefully concealing infinite quantities, could researchers sidestep bogus predictions.
How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics|Charlie Wood|September 17, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Now Jayadev Athreya, David Aulicino and Patrick Hooper have shown that an infinite number of such paths do in fact exist on the dodecahedron.
Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron|Erica Klarreich|August 31, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The technique effectively helps mathematicians solve problems — some with infinite possibilities — by turning them into discrete, finite problems.
Computer Scientists Attempt to Corner the Collatz Conjecture|Kevin Hartnett|August 26, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The photon is massless, and so electromagnetism has an infinite range.
The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts|Thomas Lewton|August 18, 2020|Quanta Magazine
As a consequence, inflation can’t help but produce a multiverse — a technicolor existence with an infinite variety of pocket universes, one of which we call home.
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang|Charlie Wood|August 4, 2020|Quanta Magazine
He asked the first local he could find if he had arrived on an island, and was assured that he had, but that it was infinite.
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He was informed indeed he had, however the island was infinite.
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It is the principle of infinite compossibility—the idea that no two things must rule each other out.
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Teasers to Reverse Flash and Crisis on Infinite Earths will appease geeky fanboys.
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“When I looked at it, it seemed unquenchable and endless and infinite,” he remembers.