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teleforce ◴[21 Nov 24 05:09 UTC] No.42201329[source]▶

> Yet the technique employed to make the theory useful — renormalization — repulsed Dirac because he found it mathematically ugly.

Perhaps if he had used quaternion the solution will not be mathematically ugly or can even be beautiful [1].

[1] A quaternion formulation of the Dirac equation:

1. cornel_io ◴[21 Nov 24 06:32 UTC] No.42201707[source]▶

That reformulation doesn't let you avoid renormalization, does it?

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2. terminalbraid ◴[21 Nov 24 08:14 UTC] No.42202175[source]▶

No, it doesn't.

January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity