So darkly complex, so fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science’s probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe—of light, electricity, gravity, matter—that the ...

IN spite of the great progress made in recent years, the theory of radiation is still in rather an unsatisfactory state. By the methods of Schrödinger it is possible to express the radiation of atoms ...

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