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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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What Is Normalization Group?

Enormalization group is related to the normalization that fimen schringe and tomanaga developed to try to solve a completely different problem, at least on the face of it. When people tried to do these calculations, they found that there was a naturally small number that comes into the calculations at at tes number. It's made up of things like electronic charge and planks constant and things like that. So you think, well, ca, so i can't solve this problem exactly, at least i can solve it in an approximation scheme that is principled and works like that. And then what a younow what fiman ton ma an schwenge did was they figured out a

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