Re: Atomic General Relativity



Souvik wrote:

> So as we zoom into the nucleus, we get to a lengthscale (equivalently,
> energy-scale) where the strong force and gravity are theoretically
> equally strong. What's weird is, even the weak and electromagnetic
> forces seem to match up in strength to the strong and gravitational
> forces at this lengthscale! This is one of those things that make
> physicists pause and wonder if there is a grand unifying principle of
> which these forces are really aspects.


Dyson proved that QED perturbative expansion starts to diverge after
terms of order 137 (1/fine structure constant). At what interaction
energies would be relevant these terms? at first sight it looks like is
around twice the energy of the Z boson.

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