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DISCUSSION OF
DOCUMENT
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Einstein: It
probably
wouldn't
be
as
difficult
to
incorporate
the
interference
phenomena as one
thinks,
and
the
reasons
for this
are as
follows:
it
must
not be assumed
that radiations consist
of noninteracting
quanta;
this
would make
it
impossible
to
explain
the
phenomena
of
interference.
I picture
a
quantum
as a
singularity
surrounded
by a
large
vector
field.
By
using
a
large
number
of
quanta
one can
construct
a
vector
field that
does not
differ
much
from
the kind
of
vector
field
we assume
to
be
involved
in
radiations.
I
can
well
imagine
that
when
rays impinge
upon a
boundary
surface,
a
separation
of
the
quanta
takes
place, due
to
interaction
at
the
boundary
surface,
possi-
bly according to
the
phase
of
the
resulting
field
at
which
the
quanta
reach
the interface.
The equations
for the resulting field
would
probably not
be
very
different
from
those
in
the
prevailing
theory.
It
might
not be
necessary,
with
respect
to
interference,
to
change
much
in
the currently
prevailing conceptions.
I
would
like
to compare
this with the
process
of
molecularization
of
the carriers
of the
electrostatic field.
The
field,
as
brought
about
by
atomized
electric
particles,
is essentially
not
very
differ-
ent from
the
previous conceptions, and
it is
not out of
the
question
that
something
similar
will
happen
in the
theory
of radiation.
I
do
not
see
any
fundamental
difficulty
in the interference
phenomena.
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