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<h1 class="title mathjax"><span class="descriptor sf-hidden">Title:</span>Something is wrong in the state of QED</h1>
<div class=authors><span class="descriptor sf-hidden">Authors:</span><a href="https://arxiv.org/search/physics?searchtype=author&amp;query=Consa,+O">Oliver Consa</a></div> <div id=download-button-info class=sf-hidden hidden>View a PDF of the paper titled Something is wrong in the state of QED, by Oliver Consa</div>
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<span class="descriptor sf-hidden">Abstract:</span>Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is considered the most accurate theory in the history of science. However, this precision is based on a single experimental value: the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron (g-factor). An examination of the history of QED reveals that this value was obtained in a very suspicious way. These suspicions include the case of Karplus &amp; Kroll, who admitted to having lied in their presentation of the most relevant calculation in the history of QED. As we will demonstrate in this paper, the Karplus &amp; Kroll affair was not an isolated case, but one in a long series of errors, suspicious coincidences, mathematical inconsistencies and renormalized infinities swept under the rug.
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<td class="tablecell comments mathjax">16 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with <a href=https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10345 data-arxiv-id=2010.10345 class=link-https>arXiv:2010.10345</a></td>
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<span class=primary-subject>General Physics (physics.gen-ph)</span></td>
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<td class="tablecell arxivid"><span class=arxivid><a href=https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02078>arXiv:2110.02078</a> [physics.gen-ph]</span></td>
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<h2>Submission history</h2> From: Oliver Consa [<a href=http://arxiv.org/show-email/7fe6cc39/2110.02078>view email</a>] <br> <strong>[v1]</strong>
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