Maxwell's equations and QED: Which is fact and which is fiction?

Physics Essays

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-262

  Mills, Randell L ^a  

^a BlackLight Power Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine structure and hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom; Hyperfine structure intervals of positronium and muonium; Lamb shift; Maxwell's equations; QED

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149174299     PISSN: 08361398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4006/1.3025792     Document Type: Article

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