Widespread agreement? Everyone knows renormalization is a shell game (as Feynman put it) but are either unwilling or unable to confront it. String theory billed itself as a royal road away from ambiguity, but turned out to be the deadest of dead ends, a one-way alley into absurdity. So we are worse off than before, because all the theorists who at least had a grasp on the real problem have retired. It's the loss of the culture of science, caused by influx of people only interested in careerism and power, nurtured by as system that grades tests and not understanding, that is mostly to blame.
Dirac was scathing in his criticism of QED. He knew that the classical theory already has insuperable problems, and tried on three different occasions to get a better classical theory before quantization. He believed that is was hopeless to quantize a classical theory that was already hopelessly diseased. ---------------------------------------------- "I write a little. I erase a lot." - Chopin --- On Wed, 11/2/11, Charles Hope <lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Charles Hope <lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Faith! To: "vortex-l@eskimo.com" <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 6:00 PM I'm interested in your criticisms of mainstream physics. Is there widespread agreement with your opinions on, say, QED? If not, what is preventing mainstream physicists from seeing it?
