Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
by dgfl on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:43AM
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If you let the computer run for long enough, it will compute any atomic spectrum to arbitrary accuracy. Only QFT has non-divergent series, so at least in theory we expect the calculations to converge.
There’s an intrinsic physical limit to which you can resolve a spectrum, so arbitrarily many digits of precision aren’t exactly a worthy pursuit anyway.
Rather: there is no known closed-form solution (and there likely won't be any).