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on his own quantum electrodynamics-based theory around how this force works.
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And it seems like there's some sort of maybe quantum vacuum fluctuation thing
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Or Heisenberg at Algoland, you know, figuring out quantum leaps and, you know, probability matrices or whatever around, you know, electron shells.
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Whether it's a gravitational force or some other quantum mechanical effect.
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And it's like the Casimir effect or like some of the, and maybe the Casimir effect makes sense in quantum electrodynamics.
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You have to use quantum.
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But to be fair it has to be a quantum mechanical effect.
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And it involves quantum electrodynamics.
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So I asked you if I could bring a friend of mine, David Chester, who is quantum electrodynamic specialist in a theoretical physicist.
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He got his undergrad at MIT, PhD from UCLA, both in physics and is kind of specializes in general relativity as well as quantum field theory.
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And you were like, I'm developing this quantum electrodynamical theory of how this actually works.
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And we have a lot of tools in quantum electrodynamics.
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So I did not think we needed QC, QCD, quantum chromodynamics, W particles, Z particles.
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And when you say you're explaining the Coulomb charge with quantum electrodynamics, how is it normally explained?
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QED says, well, thanks to quantum or Feynman and Schwinger, they are exchanging virtual particles.
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So quantum electrodynamics, QED doing Coulomb's law is a second order equation.
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So I didn't know how to derive that other than quantum electrodynamics.
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Typically, when you refer to perturbation theory in quantum electrodynamics, it's not about time independence.
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However, I mean, in quantum mechanics, before getting into quantum field theory, you could…
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that you were doing the typical perturbation theory of quantum field theory, but now you're
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if you're claiming it's a quantum effect at some point, I think, I believe, I mean,
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conservation from space-time translation symmetry. And Noether was actually studying quantum field
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the quantum corrections as well. So you could keep track of both of those. It's a little more
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Dirac spinner, which is used for electron in quantum electrodynamics, the spinner field,
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those equations, you can still have classical equations of motion for a quantum field.
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but it's subtle because it's a quantum field theory, but you know, there's a classical limit there. So
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we can correspond via email and try to talk more about quantum electrodynamics and we'll see, I, you
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know, maybe something more is needed, but I think it's a good effort to at least see where does quantum
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can't be described by quantum electrodynamics. Just keep that in mind. Yeah. You know, the reason why we
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you an alpha. And that points towards quantum electrodynamics. It points to quantum. Quantum in
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Why does the fact that a fine structure constant is showing up point towards a quantum mechanical effect?
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It's not too. So it's like a, it's like a primitive in quantum mechanics and that keeps showing up in
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you know, the quantum perturbation theory. However, just remember that even for the Coulomb force,
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his, his blade on the quantum electric dynamics. So really appreciate you both.
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