> We then use empirical data to reabsorb our new degree of freedom: this is renormalization Notably, in a less rigorous field, this process would be called "do

> We then use empirical data to reabsorb our new degree of freedom: this is renormalization Notably, in a less rigorous field, this process would be called "doing science to determine physical properties of things", which most people consider an acceptable pastime for physicists. As it turns out we can be pretty confident that the "experimental evidence" is bunk and there's something going on the theory can't account for, but it's funny that so many of the Monday morning quantum physicists think all this math stuff is just confusing the issue and pure, blind empiricism is the way to go.