🚀 go-pugleaf

dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>>  ... 
>>This is not a statement of any physics that *I* know.  As a matter of fact,
>>I'm willing to go further and say that it's total rubbish.  Can you 
>>point to a textbook which contains any statement resembling what you have
>>claimed?

>Think for yourself! I've no idea what he was talking about either, but just
>because it's not in a textbook doesn't make it rubbish.

You have no idea, Scott has no idea, I have no idea.  When someone
tells me about wild and crazy physics (eg renormaliztion, inflationary
cosmology, etc.), and I have no idea what he/she's talking about, I
try to go and find a textbook to learn more about the subject (instead
of just posting inanity to Usenet, OK?)  On the other hand I don't
imagine I'll do that this time, 'cause my bullshit detector is going off.

>Well if it's textbooks you're into, you might try Feynman's Lectures Vol II,
>chapter 28 where he describes how the theory of electromagnetism, even
>modified by QM, "ultimately falls flat on it's face" owing to the infinite
>field energy of a point charge.

See "renormalization," above.  This may surprise you, but the Feynman
Lectures do not cover ALL of physics.