Wa
thats called thinking about getting sober,right?..lol
"in
quantum field theory, the
statistical mechanics of fields, and the theory of
self-similar geometric structures,
renormalization is any of a collection of techniques used to treat
infinities arising in calculated quantities.
When describing space and time as a
continuum, certain statistical and quantum mechanical constructions are ill defined. To define them, the
continuum limit has to be taken carefully.
Renormalization establishes a relationship between parameters in the theory when the parameters describing large distance scales differ from the parameters describing small distances. Renormalization was first developed in
quantum electrodynamics (QED) to make sense of
infinite integrals in
perturbation theory. Initially viewed as a suspicious provisional procedure even by some of its originators, renormalization eventually was embraced as an important and
self-consistent tool in several fields of
physics and
mathematics."
This is according to a quick Wikipedia search. Sounds interesting!!