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010 - Donald Hoffman

Robert Edward Grant - Think Tank

CHAPTER

The Vacuum Catastrophe

The renormalization is the field that physicists talk about here, where they're trying to get a effective field theory at different scales. Why is it that electromagnetism and gravity, which both adhere to the inverse square law, do so only in the macro scale? And I'm hoping that someday someone's going to figure out how to renormalize that.

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