Re: Awareness of Nottale's scale relativity work

On Jun 5, 2:56 pm, Christophe de Dinechin <christo...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nottaledeveloped the idea quite a bit. I will refer your to his
articles (http://luth2.obspm.fr/~luthier/nottale/ukdownlo.htm) or his
book ("Fractal Space time and Microphysics",http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Space-Time-Microphysics-Towards-Relativ...).

So, any idea why physicists do not seem interested by this approach?
Is the work published in the wrong journals? DoesNottalehave
insufficient connections within the research community? Is the work
clearly wrong but I can't see it?

I have the book and I am ashamed I had not noticed that Nottale
formula is the usual formula for electromagnetic mass of the electron
in function of a natural cutoff. For instance, EXACTLY THE SAME
FORMULA, except for 3/8 that is substituted by O(1) approximation,
APPEARS IN VOLUME 2 OF POLCHINSKI STRING THEORY BOOK: section 16.2
(Spacetime susy) formula 16.2.2.

The formula has being around half a century. The only merits of
Nottale are to suggest 3/8 and to suggest that alpha should be
evaluated in running, at the point $m_e$. The demerit is that he does
not point out that standard theory gives the same results. The mistery
is if nobody has told him.


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