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An interesting page !
Hey Carl
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renormalization: in particle physics the behaviour of particles in the smallest scales is largely unknown. In order to avoid this difficulty, the particles are treated as point-like objects, and a mathematical tool known as renormalization is used to describe the unknown aspects by only few parameters, which can be adjusted so that calculations give adequate results. In string theory, this is unnecessary since the behaviour of the strings is presumed to be known to every scale.
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Better give up the title … or become 'a point like object' .. string's the thing … and then M-Theory … and then Ed Witten .. and then .. Witten's Hamster rules it all !!
Cheers