In reply to Remi Cornwall's message of Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:57:04 +0100: Hi, [snip] >I'm going to go to bed soon but photons are electrically neutral. Robin, >virtual photons shield charge. QED is a *big* subject that's tackled in the >graduate school and it's not easily mastered unless one's done the complete >groundwork and then specialised.
That's Mills' hypothesis, not mine. > >No when revolutions come they start off with simple premises, simple >paradoxes and experiments that people can get their heads around. Then the >best theoreticians move in once a consensus starts to emerge to make it all >cogent. Look at the history of QM from the early experiments and paradoxes >(1860-1905) to about 1970. The sheer economy that people like Heisenberg, >Schrodinger, Jordan, Pauli, Dirac, Feynman brought to all the disparate >phenomena and sheer zoo of stuff is one of the most intellectual Everests >ever climbed. People don't throw out the whole lot without good reason. > >It's a bit like a catchy song that has a 'hook' to rise up above all the >other stuff. In my situation a very prominent academic told me some time ago >keep it simple. Everything gets scan read to pass muster initially unless >one has an air to the good and great and they rate you highly initially. >Cock up a few times and you get set back, it takes time to win the >confidence back. > >Barring repeatable experiments and unequivocal data the good people are too >busy and just can't be bothered. :) [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
