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What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?

The Joy of Why

CHAPTER

Quantum Field Theory

Quantum field theory is said to be incomplete. What are the big remaining mysteries about it? You know, it really depends what you subscribe to. If you're a physicist and you want to compute this number, g minus two, there's nothing incomplete about quantum field theory. When the experiment gets better, you know, we calculate and we do better. And somehow with quanton field theory, i feel that younoug it's been so long, and ther has been so little progress, maybe we're thinking about it incorrectly.

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