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Cosmic Queries – Understanding Infinity with Stephon Alexander
StarTalk Radio
The Infinities of String Theory
There is now a Uber quantum theory and that theory is called string theory. Just when you thought that quantum mechanics actually would help with infinities, it turned out that quantum mechanics itself had infinities. These things are called ultraviolet or infrared divergences for the audience member who want to get fancy. So anyway, so in a long, it turns out that there is. You say quantum physics was brought on to possibly help with the classical infinities,. but then it introduces infinities of its own.
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