2021/10/04 by Oliver Consa, Consa, Oliver · 4 voices
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Anomalous magnetic dipole moment #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Electron #Mathematics #Moment (physics) #Physics #Presentation (obstetrics) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #Series (stratigraphy) #State (computer science) #Statistical physics #Statistics #Theoretical physics #Value (mathematics) #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.02078
16 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.10345
arxiv created 2021/10/04 · openalex publication_date 2021/10/04 · arxiv updated 2021/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.