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Does Infinity - Infinity = an Electron?

2024-12-19 Education
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Thanks to Radiacode for sponsoring this video. Use the promo code "PBS" to get an exclusive 10% discount at: https://103.radiacode.com/PBS What do you get if you take something that’s infinitely massive and combining with something else that’s negative infinitely massive? You get a single electron, at least that’s what it looks like in our most precise way of describing the quantum world. 15% Off The Entire Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/spacetime Search the Entire Space Time Library Here: https://search.pbsspacetime.com/ Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Matt O'Dowd Post Production by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini & Stephanie Faria Directed by Andrew Kornhaber Associate Producer: Bahar Gholipour Executive Producer: Andrew Kornhaber Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Spacetime is a production of Kornhaber Brown for PBS Digital Studios. This program is produced by Kornhaber Brown, which is solely responsible for its content. © 2024 PBS. All rights reserved. End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: https://www.youtube.com/user/MultiDroideka Space Time Was Made Possible In Part By: Big Bang Wojciech Szymski Bryce Fort Peter Barrett Alexander Tamas Morgan Hough Juan Benet Vinnie Falco Mark Rosenthal Supernova Grace Biaelcki Glenn Sugden Ethan Cohen Stephen Wilcox The Tyacke boys Mark Heising Hypernova Dean Galvin Michael Tidwell Robert DeChellis Stephen Spidle Massimiliano Pala Justin Lloyd David Giltinan Kenneth See Gregory Forfa Alex Kern Zubin Dowlaty Scott Gorlick Paul Stehr-Green Ben Delo Scott Gray Антон Кочков Robert Ilardi John R. Slavik Donal Botkin Edmund Fokschaner Chuck Zegar Gamma Ray Burst Param Saxena Eric Raschke Aaron Pinto Kacper Cieśla Satwik Pani John De Witt Nathaniel Bennett Sandhya Devi Michael Oulvey Arko Provo Mukherjee Mike Purvis Christopher Wade Anthony Crossland Grace Seraph Stephen Saslow Tomaz Lovsin Anthony Leon Lori Ferris Koen Wilde Nicolas Katsantonis Richard Steenbergen Joe Pavlovic Chuck Lukaszewski Cole B Combs Andrea Galvagni Jerry Thomas Nikhil Sharma John Anderson Bradley Ulis Craig Falls Kane Holbrook Ross Story Harsh Khandhadia Matt Quinn Michael Lev Rad Antonov Terje Vold James Trimmier Jeremy Soller Paul Wood Kent Durham jim bartosh John H. Austin, Jr. Diana S Poljar Faraz Khan Almog Cohen Daniel Jennings Jeremy Reed David Johnston Michael Barton Isaac Suttell Bleys Goodson Mark Delagasse Mark Daniel Cohen Shane Calimlim Tybie Fitzhugh Eric Kiebler Craig Stonaha Frederic Simon Jim Hudson John Funai Adrien Molyneux Bradley Jenkins Justin Waters Thomas Dougherty Zac Sweers Dan Warren Joseph Salomone Julien Dubois

Top Comments (10)

@yosuanthegreat 2024-12-19

This is what you get when you leave physicists alone.

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@lightyagami1752 2024-12-20

Mathematicians: you can't do ∞ - ∞ Physicists: Don't be so negative bro, here's an electron.

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@seajaytea9340 2024-12-19

"Calibrating to reality" is my take-away phrase from this episode. Sadly, it was mostly way over my head.

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@afoolwitteringonaboutchess 2024-12-20

When Feynman and Schwinger were awarded the Nobel prize in 1965 there was a third scientist Tomonaga who independently discovered renormalisation I just thought he deserved a mention.

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@David_Last_Name 2024-12-20

"Calibrating to reality" is how you refer to someone that is recovering from social media withdrawal.

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@adamb89 2024-12-19

This question reminds me of the arguments I used to have in 2nd grade. "Oh yeah well I have infinity points." "Yeah well I have infinity plus one points." "You can't have infinity plus one, infinity is everything." "Can too!" "Can not!"

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@pbsspacetime 2024-12-19

Thanks to Radiacode for sponsoring this video! Use the promo code "PBS" to get an exclusive 10% discount at: https://103.radiacode.com/PBS

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@armchairgravy8224 2024-12-20

I love the "You think your brain melted with electrons, just wait until we get to Higgs!".

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@Chyrre 2024-12-20

A bear sat on our hammock sofa. It did not have negative mass... We still had to renormalize the hammock sofa though

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@psychoedge 2024-12-19

Didn't know the mass of an electron is the sum of the mass of a bear and infinity. The more you know

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