  We shall outline some results regarding the infrared catastrophes of quantum
electrodynamics and perturbative quantum gravity and their implications for
information loss in quantum processes involving electrically or gravitationally
charged particles. We will argue that two common approaches to the solution of
the infrared problem, using transition probabilities which are inclusive of
copious soft photon and graviton production and using dressed states describe
fundamentally different quantizations of electrodynamics and low energy gravity
which are, in principle, distinguishable by experiments.
