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PROF. RÖNTGEN'S remarkable discovery will materially affect our views concerning the relation between the ether and matter; but further experimental evidence is required before any opinion can be expressed as to the character of the rays, which behave in so straightforward a manner that they seem to upset all one's notions of the laws of nature. Prof. Röntgen, on the strength of his carefully-conducted experiments, has arrived at a conclusion adverse to the idea that the rays only differ from light rays by the smallness of wave-length. Perhaps the following considerations may show that the evidence is not conclusive in this respect.
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SCHUSTER, A. On Röntgen's Rays. Nature 53, 268 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053268a0
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