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Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)

What it claims: QED is the quantum field theory of light and charged matter — photons and electrons (and other charged leptons) interacting via the electromagnetic field, built on Dirac’s 1928 relativistic electron equation and completed by Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga in the 1940s (shared 1965 Nobel Prize). It’s widely considered the most precisely tested theory in the history of science.

Catalog status: Proven Systems. The flagship result is the electron’s magnetic moment (its “g-factor”). Dirac’s original equation predicts exactly $g=2$. Schwinger’s 1948 calculation added the first quantum correction, $g=2(1+\alpha/2\pi)\approx2.00232$ — the first proof that a point particle’s magnetic moment isn’t quite the classical value, and the beginning of QED’s precision-test tradition. Modern measurements (Hanneke, Fogwell & Gabrielse, 2008) agree with QED’s full multi-loop prediction to about 10 significant figures — an agreement often described as the most precisely verified prediction in physics.

Where PBT touches this: Paper 6 uses the exact formula $g=2(1+\alpha/2\pi)$ and the resulting precession frequency directly — this is Schwinger’s real 1948 result, reused as-is. The 2026-07-21 site audit flagged that no derivation of this number from PBT’s own aether-vorticity mechanism is shown; the paper borrows the number rather than independently deriving it. Paper 7, 8, and 12 separately reference the real Fermilab muon g-2 anomaly (Aguillard et al., 2023, $\approx2.51\times10^{-9}$) — a distinct, still-actively-studied discrepancy between the muon’s measured and Standard-Model-predicted magnetic moment, not fully explained by QED alone and not the same number as the electron g-factor above.

References

  1. Dirac, P.A.M. (1928). “The Quantum Theory of the Electron.” Proc. R. Soc. A 117, 610–624.
  2. Schwinger, J. (1948). “On Quantum-Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron.” Phys. Rev. 73, 416.
  3. Hanneke, D., Fogwell, S., Gabrielse, G. (2008). “New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 120801.
  4. Aguillard, D.P. et al. (Fermilab Muon g-2 Collaboration). (2023). “Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161802.