American Journal of Physics

Comment on “There are no particles, there are only fields,” by Art Hobson [Am. J. Phys. 81, 211–223 (2013)]

Michael Nauenberg

Published Aug 19, 2013• 2 citations

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DOI: 10.1119/1.4811436

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