Something is wrong in the state of QED
Abstract
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is considered the most accurate theory in the history of science. However, this precision is based on a single experimental value: the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron (g-factor). An examination of the history of QED reveals that this value was obtained in a very suspicious way. These suspicions include the case of Karplus & Kroll, who admitted to having lied in their presentation of the most relevant calculation in the history of QED. As we will demonstrate in this paper, the Karplus & Kroll affair was not an isolated case, but one in a long series of errors, suspicious coincidences, mathematical inconsistencies and renormalized infinities swept under the rug.
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@article{arxiv.2110.02078,
title = {Something is wrong in the state of QED},
author = {Oliver Consa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.02078},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
16 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.10345