{"id":162047,"date":"2023-04-12T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/alien-calculus-could-save-particle-physics-from-infinities"},"modified":"2023-04-12T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:25:00","slug":"alien-calculus-could-save-particle-physics-from-infinities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/alien-calculus-could-save-particle-physics-from-infinities","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alien Calculus\u2019 Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vMiY7zlBOFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. Physicists get around this by just ignoring certain parts of the equations \u2014 an approach that provides approximate answers. But by using the techniques known as \u201cresurgence,\u201d researchers hope to end the infinities and end up with perfectly precise predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. Physicists get around this by just ignoring certain parts of the equations \u2014 an approach that provides approximate answers. But by using the techniques known as \u201cresurgence,\u201d researchers hope to end the infinities and end up with perfectly precise predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}