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By proving gauge theories can be renormalized,'t Hooft helped make sense of?

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By proving that gauge theories can be renormalized,'t Hooft helped make sense of subatomic particles. Renormalization is a mathematical technique that allows physicists to make sense of the infinities that arise in quantum field theories. Without renormalization, quantum field theories would be useless for describing the real world.
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