in physics, invoking infinity is equivalent to giving up - right?

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@filipw I think they prefer to call it renormalization. ;-)

@filipw To be a bit more serious, I thought there was some ongoing debate about whether the Hilbert space of the Universe has finite or infinite dimension. I believe this has at least theoretical consequences for the late time state of the universe in cosmology, namely whether it actually settles to a steady state or you see Poincaré recurrences.

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