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THE content of Dirac's1,2 beautiful new classical theory of electrodynamics can be clarified by consideration of the energy and momentum tensor.
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LE COUTEUR, K. Dirac's New Electrodynamics. Nature 169, 146–147 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169146c0
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