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Confining the Aether

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Insight and heuristic guidance in a number of areas including the bag model for hadrons and the surface properties of metals ought to be afforded by a theory in which a quantum field is restricted by a surface on which it is constrained to satisfy certain boundary conditions.

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Candelas, P. (1983). Confining the Aether. In: Greiner, W. (eds) Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 80. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2139-0_36

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