Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In the 1960s, Dutch physicist Martinus Veltman had a problem: checking that certain particle models wouldn't yield silly infinities. That's the sort of puzzle theorists normally crack with blackboards and chalk, along with large cups of coffee. 100
Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · 12/03/2026That time, though, the formulas were too long. Even assuming one could reach the end, the odds of a plus turning into a minus, or a term slipping between lines, were close to a hundred percent. Not to mention the hassle of fetching thousands of blackboards. 100
