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Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?

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Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« on: 16/05/2019 10:45:40 »

Are they correct? Why?

I think they are misleading the masses. For what reason?
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #1 on: 16/05/2019 10:50:36 »
Shameless liars mislead the sheeples on youtube, teach physics in college. Well done.
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #2 on: 16/05/2019 10:52:37 »
Monkey math at work?
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #3 on: 16/05/2019 10:53:28 »
E=MC^2 works the same way. Agree?
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #4 on: 16/05/2019 10:56:48 »
Read the comments on youtube, can you see how stupid are the masses?

Why our science and math education so bad? How can we fix the problems?
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #5 on: 16/05/2019 11:18:15 »
Neil Degrasse Tyson is the same, talks about time travel and gravity wave and photon on youtube, mislead the masses.

Time is not a physical place that can be traveled, time travel is not science fiction but science lie. Agree?

Neil explains space-time as if you meet someone it must be a place and a time. He forgot when he is farting, many monkeys are farting at the same time at different places. Agree?
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #6 on: 16/05/2019 11:38:47 »
You were warned to keep to the forum rules but chose to ignore this request.
It was your choice to take the consequences.
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Re: Is 1+2+3...=-1/12 correct?
« Reply #7 on: 16/05/2019 19:22:15 »
Quote from: seeker3 on 16/05/2019 10:45:40
Are they correct?
No.
Quote from: seeker3 on 16/05/2019 10:45:40
Why?
Because they get the maths wrong.
About 7 minutes into this video

the presenter explains that the sum
1 +1-1+1-1+1-1...
does not have a sum.
In particular, that sum is not  a half.


And here's the important message.
Some scientists said something which is wrong. (Maybe by mistake; maybe as a joke- maybe for a bet- who knows?)

Some other scientist(s) pointed out that it was wrong (and why it was wrong).
Now  everybody knows the right answer.

That's how science works.
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