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Phenomenological Aspects of Localizability

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Recent experimental and theoretical advances have provided some additional insight into the value of local field theories for the description of actual phenomena. It is suggested, on the basis of some of these results, that there is evidence that the concept of the position of an elementary system may have phenomenological importance.

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    Charles P. Enz

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    Jagdish Mehra

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Horwitz, L. (1974). Phenomenological Aspects of Localizability. In: Enz, C.P., Mehra, J. (eds) Physical Reality and Mathematical Description. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2274-3_21

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