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Originally Posted by Eratosthenes
Wow, you're response is very impressive.
Its strange that there are areas of Physics that actually use the result "Summation of positive integers, to infinity equaling -1/12"
If it's hogwash, then so are parts or all of String Theory (which is probably hogwash anyway)
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Your whole argument is based on a wonky video where the only reference to String Theory is a guy who points to an equation in a book.
That's all there is?
String Theory has been caught out by an ill directed finger?
Since you didn't bother with my request to provide the source, a simple google search found the appropriate document.
http://stringworld.ru/files/Polchins...nic_string.pdf
As expected cherry picking or in this case finger pointing doesn't tell the whole story.
It doesn't tell you that the author already knows that {1+2+3+4+5+6....} is a divergent series.
The story leading up to the infamous finger pointed equation 1.3.32, involves treating the energy levels of a bosonic string like a quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator. In this case summing over all the harmonics leads to a divergent value.
String Theorists use a mathematical technique from Quantum Field Theory known as renormalization. In this case the higher frequency harmonics are cut out of the sum as they are above the energy threshold level of the system.
Equation 1.3.32 basically indicates the summed energies
after renormalization.
Rather than being a mathematical trick, renormalization has a physical significance and is related to the Casimir effect where there has been a shift in the ground energy state of the bosonic string.
All of this is of course totally irrelevant to a thread involving Cosmology.
Once again you are in engaging in Gish Gallop tactics.