Re: Charge without rest mass

"Lubos Motl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On 28 Nov 2003, Squark wrote:
>
> > Sounds logical, but are you completely sure?
>
> Yup. Just like the fine structure constant runs at energies above the
> electron mass, it would run at all energies. The modification would be a
> sort of logarithmic - imagine that the force would be C/(r^2.log(r/r0))
> for large separations "r".

Ok, so it's not spontaneous symmetry breaking. The later would give
Cexp(-r/r0)/r^2. I guess another way to put it is that we get no IR fixed point?

> > My guess is that the way to view this is that p_mu F^mu nu always
> > vanishes when regularized properly.
>
> Why should it vanish? It is called the Lorentz electromagnetic force
> (times m/e).

It should vanish since m/e = 0 :-)

Best regards,
 Squark

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