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Physics and microphysics

This comprehensive text delves into the intricate world of physics, examining the behavior of particles and forces at a micro level. It covers key concepts and theories, providing a foundation for understanding the complex interactions that govern the universe. more

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Louis de Broglie
Louis de Broglie

Louis de Broglie was a French physicist known for his work on the wave-particle duality, which played a significant role in the development of quantum mechanics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 for his contributions. more

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“Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.”

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“The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.”

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