Authors: Paul Werbos
This letter proposes a new approach to the unmet challenge of plausibly modeling the electron and other elementary particles as “solitons,” as stable vortices of force fields. This is the only alternative in Minkowski space to the usual model of charged elementary particles as perfect point particles, with an infinite Coulomb energy of self repulsion [1], requiring that elaborate systems of renormalization must be added to the fundamental definition of any quantum field theory. Richard Feynmann has written: “The shell game that we play is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate”.[2] This letter first summarizes previous approaches using topological solitons, and then motivates and outlines the new approach.
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