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ACCORDING to recent experiments by R. Shankland1, the conservation principles are not obeyed in individual processes of interaction between matter and radiation. The general theoretical implications of the new results have been considered by Dirac2, who concludes that they only require us to forgo quantum electrodynamics (in which radiation is represented in terms of light-quanta rather than in terms of electromagnetic waves). In this note I wish to direct attention to one or two points which may be of interest in connexion with the new results and the Uncertainty Principle.
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R. Shankland, Phys. Rev., 48, 8 (1936).
P. A. M. Dirac, NATURE, 137, 298 (1936).
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WILLIAMS, E. Conservation of Energy and Momentum in Atomic Processes. Nature 137, 614–615 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137614b0
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