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https://youtu.be/w-I6XTVZXww
https://youtu.be/YuIIjLr6vUA

Who was in the wrong here?

>> No.10618511
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10618511

Everyone was right

>> No.10618512

>>10618505
Numberphile

>> No.10618533

>>10618505
You

>> No.10618536

Father fucking forgive me, if I have to hear one more mouse-voices brainlet in my CS seminar say “did you know that all the positive integers added together equals -1/12, yeah it’s actually true isn’t that crazy” again I’m going to overturn a desk and do a barrel roll out the fucking window
That fucking video. That motherfucking video, man.

>> No.10618538

This shit is as old as string theory and just as interesting.

>> No.10618550
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>>10618536
>Wow Anon, you like science and maths too! So do I! Teehee, I'm such a nerd, did you know the sum of all natural numbers is -1/12, crazy isn't?

>> No.10618556

>>10618550
Hot ropes of tar-like fury are draped across my internal organs right now

>> No.10618564

>>10618538
That was literally the reason why string theory used 24+2=26 dimensions

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Friendly reminder that this was a better drama

>> No.10618586

>>10618564
Yeah, hence my post.

>> No.10618591

>>10618572
Care to summarize?

>> No.10619627

>>10618591
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9LuVBfwvzA

>> No.10619631

Anyone have the screencap of Anon talking about how he will get money everyday and the amount he gets increases everyday, but he doesn't take the deal because he's too smart and knows he will get negative money (-1/12) at the end? I want to see it so bad rn

>> No.10620950

>>10619631
Lmao I want to see this too

>> No.10620964

>>10619631
That was me but I don't have a screenshot saved, sorry.

>> No.10620966

>>10618505
numberphile was wrong.

the guy in the video, dr. padilla, is a physicist with little math background. basically he's an idiot who doesn't know math well enough to be talking about it.

mathologer got it right and cleaned up the mess - to the degree that it was possible, because numberphile's claims have spread viraly like a disease and poisoned many laymen minds..

>> No.10621122

>>10618556
>Hot ropes of tar-like fury are draped across my internal organs right now
Did you hold in a shit that hard?

>> No.10621274

Scientist vs scientist thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tig3NaTjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabHm1QWVCA

>> No.10621283

>>10620966
if they're laymen their minds are already poisoned

>> No.10621288
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10621288

i understand that the sum of all naturals is a re generalization of summation and isnt the natural intuition of sum, but why is it applicable in physics? any anon know this?

>> No.10621305

>>10618505
Look up zeta function numberphile is right

>> No.10621311
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10621311

I remember when that vid was new.

>> No.10621330

>>10621311
thats hilarious

>> No.10621433

>>10621311
>being divergent means it doesn't have a value
>dumb nigger thinks closure is still valid in infinitary addition
these are weak criticisms you dumbass

>> No.10621443

>>10621288
please respond, surley theres someone here who actually understands this

>> No.10621468

>>10621288
It's used somewhere in string theory, the definition of the beat function or something. I don't quite remember. Those are quantum fields and therefore defined on complex numbers, hence the need for (and the possibility to do) analytic continuation.

>> No.10621493

>>10621288
the only reason you think it shouldnt be applicable is because youve accepted that "infinite series only make sense when theyre intuitive" but that bullshit
the universe doesnt care what your definition of infinite series is
so artificially making a distinction based on intuition
"1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 +... makes sense"
but "1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +... doesnt because my brain ouchie"
doesnt correspond to reality, just to your intuition
if you just use the re generalization from the beginning, then theres nothing strange about being able to use it in physics

>> No.10621510

>>10618591
electroboom was questioning a statement from lewin about kirchkoff's law. electroboom thought he'd found a counter-example to lewin. lewin was a huge dick and just dismissed him out of hand. it turned out electroboom was wrong but it was because of a really fiddly point about how he was doing his measurements and how that related to what lewin was talking about.

>> No.10621512

>>10618572
kek, it must really burn for a jew to be proven wrong my an arab. Ouch

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>>10621510
Thank you.