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IN 1929 I published a number of papers1 on the problem, of the masses of the fundamental particles, in which I proposed a new principle, called the "hypothesis of elementary indeterminacy". According to this hypothesis, a fundamental neutral particle is ascribed a certain fundamental length, q0, related to a fundamental momentum, p0 by the relation and a fundamental time, t0, connected to the energy, E0 by the conjugate relation q0 is interpreted as the linear dimension of a cell structure of the configuration space of the particle ; this amounts to the assertion that the position of the particle cannot be determined to a greater accuracy than q0, so that this quantity constitutes the linear extension or ‘radius' of the particle. t0 is interpreted as a natural time unit connected with the particle, which is essentially the same as ascribing to it an oscillation of periodic time t0.
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Lattes, C. H. G., Occhialini, G. P. S., and Powell, C. F., Proc. Phys. Soc., 61, 173 (1948).
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FÜRTH, R. Masses of Mesons. Nature 162, 772–773 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162772a0
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