arXiv:2010.10345physics.hist-ph
The Unpublished Feynman Diagram IIc
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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.
this is what I've found to be most troubling around this whole debacle: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10345 how can it be in any way 'scientific' to base results on unpublished material?? > The analytic results we accept as true are partially unpublished, and the people who did the…
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