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		tbabb on Feb 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Ein... > 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

Manishearth on Feb 12, 2016 [–]

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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