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Further suggestion is that post war, this kind of narrative consensus in physics was a key part of maintaining peace and order in the world. Another dubious aspect is the way in which the interaction between matter and waves is explained. Feynman diagrams illustrate the problem, which is that you have a forward and backward causation, a pulling towards from the future as much as a pushing away from the past.
— Mar 16, 2023 05:57AM
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Jonathan Hockey
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"The point of view of this book is that quantum field theory is the way
it is because (with certain qualifications) this is the only way to reconcile
quantum mechanics with special relativity" [This is part of the problem also, why are we looking to "reconcile" existing theories? It is much more likely both are wrong if there are problems and you can't find it in either one alone.]
— Mar 16, 2023 06:00AM
it is because (with certain qualifications) this is the only way to reconcile
quantum mechanics with special relativity" [This is part of the problem also, why are we looking to "reconcile" existing theories? It is much more likely both are wrong if there are problems and you can't find it in either one alone.]
Jonathan Hockey
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Suggestion is that this shelter island conference of 1947 was about setting a new narrative for all physics. Its claims to this day are massively bloated and over loaded compared to what is actually achieved with Quantum electro dynamics. It is not just the renormalisation irrationality. The whole way in which things are brought together is quantiatively ad hoc and not motivated by good theory.
— Mar 16, 2023 05:56AM
Jonathan Hockey
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Probably equally important was the fact that the conference brought together theorists who had in their own individual ways been thinking about renormalization as a solution to the problem of infinities. When the revolution came in the late 1940s, it was made by physicists who though mostly young were playing a conservative role, turning away from the search by their predecessors for a radical solution.
— Mar 16, 2023 05:53AM
