yes
Mmmm.. yes, of course. Makes sense
Aiden Jones
Michael Gomez
this is a troll/meme right? Like the flat earth meme that everyone pretends to be in on?
Parker Howard
Well, you know... sometimes in mathematics you can get unexpected results! XD
Jeremiah Moore
it's real
1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1...=1/2
now add
1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1...
- 1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1...
= 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = -1/12
and 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1... = 1+2+3+4+5...
therefore 1+2+3+4+5...=-1/12
Ryan Sanchez
could you add parentheses to make it less ambiguous
Kevin Garcia
>I cant read
XD KYS OOLOLOL
Juan Watson
>[math]\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}1=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}n[/math]
What
Hunter Hall
How did this become such a meme?
Isaac Bell
>But how did this curious, wrong result make it into a physics textbook, as shown in the video? Here is where things really get interesting. Suppose you take two conducting metallic plates and arrange them in a vacuum so that they are parallel to each other. According to classical physics, there shouldn't be any net force acting between the two plates.
>But classical physics doesn't reckon with the weird effects you see when you look at the world at very small scales. To do that, you need quantum physics, which tells us many very strange things. One of them is that the vacuum isn't empty, but seething with activity. So-called virtual particles pop in and out of existence all the time. This activity gives a so called zero point energy: the lowest energy something can have is never zero (see here for more detail).
>So-called virtual particles pop in and out of existence all the time.
The explanation is literally meme tier flat earth BS all on its fucking own!
Luis Russell
Huuuuugh...