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shminux comments on [SEQ RERUN] Reductionism - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 02 March 2012 08:38:33PM 4 points [-]

Renormalization is a very specific technique, mostly used in HEP, to work around the infinities cropping up into the calculations. It does not let you predict anything about a lower-energy model from the higher-energy one, only to replace "bare" quantities with the renormalized ones.