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Are you saying that it's a coincidence that -1/12 ends up in both the casimir effect and in this proof? This coincidence is what I'm referring to..
by egjerlow 10y ago
Are you saying that it's a coincidence that -1/12 ends up in both the casimir effect and in this proof? This coincidence is what I'm referring to..
- mcv 10y agoYou could get any result you want from this kind of proof. Someone else here already used some of these steps to prove that 1+1+1+1+1...==0.
- ajkjk 10y agoIt's not a coincidence. I'm saying that both calculations - the math we're using to understand that Casimir effect, and the math we use to 'find' the sum equals -1/12, are making the same simplification that 'misses the point' of what's 'actually happening'. In some sense that's hard to put one's finger on.