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UNDER the above title, Prof. G. Temple1 deduces the paradox from the general principles of the quantum theory, that any two operators representing physical variables must commute. If this conclusion be correct, it would involve fatal consequences; therefore we should like to point out that the commutability of operators does not follow from the general principles, but only from the particular and rather arbitrary principle of symmetrisation, which Prof. Temple claims to have deduced, but which is a new hypothesis in reality.
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G. Temple, NATURE, 135, 957, June 8, 1935.
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FRÖHLICH, H., GUTH, E. The Fundamental Paradox of the Quantum Theory. Nature 136, 179 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136179a0
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