{"id":523,"date":"2003-09-17T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=523"},"modified":"2003-09-17T20:39:06","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T03:39:06","slug":"the-r-stands-for-renormalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2003\/09\/17\/the-r-stands-for-renormalization\/","title":{"rendered":"The R stands for Renormalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R. P. Feynman characterized his work in QED as <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a scheme for pushing a great problem under the rug. Maybe it will stay under the rug and, then again, maybe it won&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> If this quote doesn&#8217;t fill you with a nagging desire to go look under the rug, then don&#8217;t become a theoretical physicist.  If it does, take some aspirin, read the quote again for inspiration and then start doing problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. P. Feynman characterized his work in QED as a scheme for pushing a great problem under the rug. Maybe it will stay under the rug and, then again, maybe it won&#8217;t. If this quote doesn&#8217;t fill you with a nagging desire to go look under the rug, then don&#8217;t become a theoretical physicist. If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2003\/09\/17\/the-r-stands-for-renormalization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The R stands for Renormalization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}