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[Submitted on 4 Oct 2021]
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Title: Something is wrong in the state of QED
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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 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 & 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 & 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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Comments: 	16 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.10345
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Subjects: 	General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
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Cite as: 	arXiv:2110.02078 [physics.gen-ph]
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  	(or arXiv:2110.02078v1 [physics.gen-ph] for this version)
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  	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2110.02078
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From: Oliver Consa [ view email ]
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[v1] Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:44:12 UTC (833 KB)
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