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Does Infinity - Infinity = an Electron?

PBS Space Time · Season 2024 · Episode 33
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.

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Season
2024
Episode
33
Air Date
19/Dec/2024
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
17 min

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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.

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