The Flaw In Quantum ElectroDynamics Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1989: 260):

But [QED theory] suffers from one crucial flaw, related to the presence of that cloud of virtual particles around each electron. 

Quantum physics tells us that an electron is surrounded by a cloud of virtual photons and that any or all of these photons may be turning into electron–positron pairs, or into other pairs of virtual particles, before being reabsorbed by the electron.  Extra energy is always being borrowed from the field, and from the uncertainty relation, literally without any limit to the complexity of the loops of virtual photons and virtual electron–positron pairs being produced.  When the rules of quantum physics are applied with scrupulous care to calculate how much energy can be involved in such loops of virtual particles, it turns out there is no limit — the energy of the electron plus the cloud of virtual particles around it becomes infinite, and since the electron and its cloud are inseparable, at first sight that seems to mean that electrons must have infinite mass.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the cloud of virtual particles around each electron are momentary instances of electron matter potential, in line with the probabilities of that potential.  The "reabsorption" of virtual particles "by an electron" are cessations of such instantiations of that potential.  The extra energy that is always being "borrowed" from the field and the uncertainty relation constitute instances of electron energy potential.  The false notion that electrons must have infinite energy and mass arises from not distinguishing quantum potential from actual instances.