“I think that the correct connection between quantum theory and relativity has not yet been discovered. ...I think that the present methods which theoretical physicists are using are not the correct methods. They use... a renormalization technique which involves handling infinite quantities, and this is not really a mathematically logical process. ...[I]t is just a set of working rules rather than a correct mathematical theory and I don't like this whole development at all. I think that some other important discoveries will have to be made before these questions are put into order. In particular, there is the problem of explaining the , the number 137, which plays an important role in physics, and the question is, why should it be 137 instead of some other number. That has not been explained at all, and I feel that it is necessary to get an explanation of that before one would make an important advance in understanding atomic theory. ...There is quite a different problem with the ratio of the mass of the proton to the mass of the electron, and the question is whether the ratio of these masses remains constant or whether it develops slowly with time.”
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