How Science Dodges Infinity

By Leo Gura - June 24, 2025

Theoretical physicists run into infinities all the time in their work. However, since their methods are finite their methods are incapable of handling infinities, so they treat infinities as errors and mistakes — as a bug rather than a feature.

Here’s an example of how quantum mechanics works to hard to avoid confronting infinity. Science does mental gymnastics to avoid facing Infinity, because science is finite and Infinity obliterates science. Infinity literally does not compute in the scientist’s mind. But instead of taking that to mean there’s something wrong with science, scientists take it mean there’s something wrong with reality.

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Sean Carrol: “If you’re sloppy about that, your answer turns out to be infinity and your theory’s on the wrong track. Everything we know about in the physical world has this nice finite answer in this quantum mechanical realm except for gravity. Gravity does not fit. And indeed, it was recognized pretty quickly that there is a good reason why gravity doesn’t fit. And it was almost impossible to imagine fitting gravity in. Namely, that gravity interacts with everything… So when you do the scattering experiment, when you do the calculation, everything in the universe contributes to the infinitely big answer that you don’t want to get.”

Science is literally coming face to face with God, but science is so narrowly focused on finite pragmatic results that every time it runs into God, it sees God as a useless mistake.

Hello! God is Infinity!

Quantum physicists found God 100 years ago. But they are so narrow-minded they threw him in the trash.

Science is an exercise in trying to contain Infinity, but at the edges this exercise must always fail because the thing that all of science is always studying is Infinity/God. The reason that my work is more intelligent than science is because I understand this and science does not. The higher intelligence understands the lower. The lower misunderstands the higher. Science is not intelligent enough to understand Infinity.

Science is a game of dodge-ball where the ball is Infinity/God. It is not an accident that science hasn’t found God, science is unwittingly deft at avoiding God. Any time science finds God, it just calls it a mistake.

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