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Wave

Published Aug 1, 2003• 0 citations
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Gamow, George In wave mechanics there are no impenetrable barriers, and as the British physicist R.H. Fowler put it after my lecture on that subject at the Royal Society of London. . . “Anyone at present in this room has a finite chance of leaving it without opening the door, or, of course, without being thrown out through the window.”

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