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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: The size of electrons, and Fanciful misc SAGA
- Message-ID: <Nov.5.18.26.40.1992.16405@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:26:41 GMT
- References: <1cnp7iINN3pc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov02.091053.23915@prometheus.UUCP> <2NOV199214144631@csa3.lbl.gov> <1992Nov4.134033.368@prim>
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- dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes:
- >> ...
- >>This is not a statement of any physics that *I* know. As a matter of fact,
- >>I'm willing to go further and say that it's total rubbish. Can you
- >>point to a textbook which contains any statement resembling what you have
- >>claimed?
-
- >Think for yourself! I've no idea what he was talking about either, but just
- >because it's not in a textbook doesn't make it rubbish.
-
- You have no idea, Scott has no idea, I have no idea. When someone
- tells me about wild and crazy physics (eg renormaliztion, inflationary
- cosmology, etc.), and I have no idea what he/she's talking about, I
- try to go and find a textbook to learn more about the subject (instead
- of just posting inanity to Usenet, OK?) On the other hand I don't
- imagine I'll do that this time, 'cause my bullshit detector is going off.
-
- >Well if it's textbooks you're into, you might try Feynman's Lectures Vol II,
- >chapter 28 where he describes how the theory of electromagnetism, even
- >modified by QM, "ultimately falls flat on it's face" owing to the infinite
- >field energy of a point charge.
-
- See "renormalization," above. This may surprise you, but the Feynman
- Lectures do not cover ALL of physics.
-