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SIR J. J. THOMSON has explained in his recent letter to NATURE1 that the discontinuity in the structure of light waves (a singularity), to which I directed his attention in my comments2 upon his views on the nature of light3, need not be provided, as I wrote, by a permanent ” guiding” cylinder of different medium, but can be generated inside the atom and travel with the wave packet.
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JAPOLSKY, N. Structure of Light Waves. Nature 137, 1031 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371031a0
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