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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      The extremely broad metaphor the guy gives us for trying to imagine this is -- the actual positive numbers that we add up in 1+2+3+4... can't give us a real sum The number keeps getting bigger, it leads us only toward ∞, and ∞ isn't a number, so the sum just doesn't exist

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      Analytic continuation is about saying "Okay, so if you take out everything that you're not allowed to do that absolutely by the rules cannot give you an answer, can you find something about it that *does* give you an answer"

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      Paradoxical Zen koan shit Like Death in Discworld saying that the universe by definition is everything that exists and everywhere is inside it so you can't be outside it and standing outside it is a contradiction in terms But if you could, then from the outside it'd be blue

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      -1/12 is a "residue", it's a "leftover piece" of 1+2+3+4..., the one bit that can be made to act like a number

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      And that, in its way, is connected to the paradoxical thing the Casimir effect is, this thing where in a total vacuum where nothing should be exerting any force on anything, two metal plates very close together will attract each other

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      I.e. -- getting really sloppy and vague from my layman's POV again, in real life in quantum physics a "vacuum" is actually filled with "virtual particles", which kinda almost do exist but then don't

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

      It is obviously invoked constantly in silly and meaningless ways on the Internet but it is also obviously a real thing that works, as evidenced by the fact that we have an Internet

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    9. Josh Antoline‏ @damonkord 7 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Is this an "all models are wrong, some are useful" moment?

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020
      Replying to @damonkord

      No it's just saying that the fact that quantum physics is really weird obviously means that some people like to go "Well if it's weird then there's NO RULES AT ALL and anything can be true like the fact that if you pay me $500 I can cure your cancer via energy healing over Skype"

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord

      But that doesn't make it not weird, it doesn't prove weirdness is false The weirdest shit in quantum physics has been extremely rigorously proven, over and over, the electronics we use every day would not work if the math was just bullshit

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord

          Anyway when it comes the absolute weirdest and most disturbing implications of quantum physics, like a many-worlds multiverse, I've never heard a physicist actually explain to my satisfaction that it is bullshit They usually just say not to think about it

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord

          (The philosophical question of a multiverse honestly kind of precedes knowing anything about physics anyway, either that kind of thing makes sense to you or it doesn't, the physics would just be a way of talking about the mechanism)

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Aug 2020

          Knowing about quantum physics itself doesn't prove anything about most other topics one way or another It is a useful rhetorical device for pointing out that "common sense" intuition isn't much of an argument about anything though

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        2. Miles‏ @mileshuman 7 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord

          I think what you’re saying, effectively, is that the electronics could not have been developed if the math were bullshit, because the math yielded predictions than were critical to developing the technology.

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        3. Miles‏ @mileshuman 7 Aug 2020
          Replying to @mileshuman @arthur_affect @damonkord

          Without predictive power in addition to descriptive accuracy, the math could be “bullshit” merely fitting observation.

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