What is the range of validity of quantum field theory? Is there a "length" or an "index of complexity" or something which limits the use of local quantum field theory?Submitted by Larry Weaver, Kansas State University professor.
It is easy to say energies must be below the Planck energy or string
tension, but that reminds me that a century ago the limitation on classical
physics was thought to be 10-13 cm, the classical electron radius. In
fact, the physics of the time broke down at a scale five orders of magnitude
greater.
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