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RECENTLY some doubts have been expressed about the neutrino theory of light, and Fock1 has claimed to have found some general rigorous arguments against the possibility of such a hypothesis, especially in its existing form. We believe that Fock's arguments are not valid, though it seems that Jordan's original work2 on the derivation of the photon amplitudes b(k) from neutrino amplitudes, a(k),c(k) is somewhat ambiguous, as it contains in fact an indefinite expression of the type – ; later, Jordan proved the convergence of the result but in a somewhat artificial way.
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SOKOLOW, A. Neutrino Theory of Light. Nature 139, 1071 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391071a0
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