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  • noun physics any of several techniques in statistical mechanics and quantum electrodynamics used to construct mathematical relationships between observable quantities

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  • Only a technique called "renormalization" could save the theory from itself.

    Clay Farris Naff: If Infinity Is The Devil, What Is God? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • Only a technique called "renormalization" could save the theory from itself.

    Clay Farris Naff: If Infinity Is The Devil, What Is God? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • This hierarchy is technically unnatural in particle physics, since, in general, the effect of quantum mechanics (here known as renormalization) is to make the observable values of such scales much closer in size.

    Identifying Dark Matter Mark 2006

  • This hierarchy is technically unnatural in particle physics, since, in general, the effect of quantum mechanics (here known as renormalization) is to make the observable values of such scales much closer in size.

    Identifying Dark Matter Mark 2006

  • This hierarchy is technically unnatural in particle physics, since, in general, the effect of quantum mechanics (here known as renormalization) is to make the observable values of such scales much closer in size.

    Model Building and Naturalness Mark 2006

  • This procedure is called the renormalization of mass and charge, and our method has brought the possibility that the theory will lead to finite results by the renormalization even if it contains defects.

    Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • Many people used explicitly or implicitly this idea, and we find the word renormalization already in Dancoff's paper.

    Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • The p-adic primes themselves encompass infinities that have served to distort more standard ToEs (and have to be factored out by fiat via "renormalization").

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • For example, "renormalization" is the label for a number of ways for getting theories (interesting in some way) from infinite divergent series (usually the terms correspond to possible particle interactions, say like an electron and positron annihilating to create an "electron neutrino", its anti-particle, and a photon).

    The Speculist: What We Don't Know 2007

  • One can try complicated techniques such as renormalization in a simple setting and it is possible to get acquainted with mechanisms ” in this case symmetry breaking ” that can be used later on (Hartmann 1995).

    Models in Science Frigg, Roman 2006

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