Re: Is zero even or odd?
From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax (dirk_at_neopax.com)
Date: 12/23/04
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:54:20 +0000
Kevin Aylward wrote:
> Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
>
>>Gordon Weast wrote:
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>>>Another is renormalization theory in QED (Quantum Electrodynamics).
>>>There are several infinities in the theory that appeared to make
>>>the results nonsense. However, if you keep track very carefully,
>>>you can get the infinities to cancel and come up with predictions
>>>that match measurements very accurately.
>>
>>And physicists think it an ugly bodge.
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>
> Actually, I think the physicists think its just a bit annoying, its the
> mathematicians that think its the ugly bodge.
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>
>>Clearly the infinities are
>>failures of the theory,
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>
> Or a failure of the mathematics.
Is there a difference?
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