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H. FBOHLICH and E. Guth claim that Temple's paradox (that if physical operators commute, Planck's constant is equal to zero), which would invalidate the greater part of the quantum theory, is due to the arbitrary way in which he chooses the product of three physical variables. Prof. Temple, while agreeing that in the case of triple products a unique form of representation cannot be derived, maintains that his deduction is as legitimate as that of Frohlich and Guth. The paradox, he considers, really indicates that physical characteristics cannot be simultaneously described by classical variables and by quantum operators.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 136, 187 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136187a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136187a0