Re: Electron size, shape and spin.Confusion and conflicts with Einstein's 1905 SR.

rhertz <hertz778@gmail.com> wrote:

I forgot to add that, as E = e^2/R (esu units), in quantum physics the
Classical Electron Radius of about 10^-15 m is used, IN ORDER TO obtain
0.511 MeV.

There is no such thing as a radius in QED.
All there is is the experimental electron rest mass,
powers of it, multiplied by various powers of \alpha.

You can attach names to some of those expressions,
but that serves no physical purpose.
The results are what they are,

Jan