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Title:The Unpublished Feynman Diagram IIc

Authors:Oliver Consa
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Abstract:Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is considered the most accurate theory in the history of science. However, this precision is limited to a single experimental value: the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron (g-factor). The calculation of the electron g-factor was carried out in 1950 by Karplus and Kroll. Seven years later, Petermann detected and corrected a serious error in the calculation of a Feynman diagram; however, neither the original calculation nor the subsequent correction was ever published.Therefore, the entire prestige of QED depends on the calculation of a single Feynman diagram (IIc) that has never been published and cannot be independently verified.
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2010.10345 [physics.hist-ph]
  (or arXiv:2010.10345v1 [physics.hist-ph] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2010.10345
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Journal reference: Progress In Physics, Volume 16, Issue 2 (October, 2020)

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From: Oliver Consa [view email]
[v1] Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:37:27 UTC (63 KB)
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