To me the greatest mystery is Sommerfeld's incorrect derivation of correct Dirac's formula for relativisitic atomic energies. It is absolutely amazing: http://ufn.ru/ufn04/ufn04_5/Russian/r045f.pdf
Now, that can't be explained by contour integration... Heisenberg and Weinberg considered this exact coincidence to be pure miracle.
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Date: 2012-03-05 12:28 am (UTC)Now, that can't be explained by contour integration... Heisenberg and Weinberg considered this exact coincidence to be pure miracle.