alright just for fun: AMA but only about math, will attempt to speed-explain stuff with as few symbols and equations as possible and see what happens
(esp happy to field questions about stuff that seems basic to you and that you feel like you should've gotten a long time ago!)
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how come qft is bad so often
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idk i think the infinities in it are all fake but who knows
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especially the underlying spacetime manifold like get outta here with that
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the strongest counterargument i know (which is not saying much, I Am Not A Physicist) to "maybe the infinities are all fake" is that apparently it's weirdly hard to discretize fermions: