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To: dennisw
"the late LENR theorist, Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger, resigned from the APS in the early 1990s because the APS journals refused to publish his theories about the possible mechanisms of cold fusion."

Julian Schwinger did the unified quantum theory in around 1950. The reasoning was difficult to follow without better mathematics talent than usual amongst the nuclear physicists of the day. Richard Feynman advanced a simpler hypothesis, advanced by Freeman Dyson, cutting the math way down. Robert Oppenheimer gave the Feynman interpretation his blessing after Hans Bethe urged him to do so.

Schwinger believed that the Feynman interpretation was wrong, untrue, because the Feynman interpretation did not examine charged particles using the Maxwell electro-magnetic field equations, and instead used a "point" model for the electron and other charged particles. This was a profound and egregious error in Schwinger's eyes.

The man who got the Nobel Prize for making quantum physics a unified theory said that the "modern" interpretation of quantum physics is wrong.

I don't have enough math to say anything about this, really, so do not ask me real questions about this stuff. I'll do a little searching and see if I can find a link.
8 posted on 03/26/2004 10:15:38 AM PST by Iris7 (If "Iris7" upsets or intrigues you, see my Freeper home page for a nice explanatory essay.)
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To: Iris7
Feynman would have been a candidate for Ritalin if he had been born later. An enthusiastic lecturer who taught us that frog's eyes have a 'dark' sensor in addition to rods and cones.
11 posted on 03/26/2004 10:21:34 AM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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