When Infinity Equals -1/12

Patrick Star: math genius or blissfully ignorant? The blue guy is asking about an infinite sum where each term gets bigger than the previous one. By all logic, this should explode to infinity! But nope, Patrick drops the mathematical bombshell that it equals -1/12.

This is actually a famous mathematical oddity! The sum 1+2+3+4+... technically diverges to infinity, but through some wild mathematical gymnastics called "analytic continuation," physicists and mathematicians assign it the value -1/12. This bizarre result actually shows up in string theory and quantum physics calculations.

Next time someone tells you math is straightforward, just hit them with "1+2+3+4+...=-1/12" and watch their brain short-circuit. Mathematics: where infinity can equal a negative fraction and somehow the universe doesn't implode!