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Letter: Letters : Positively wrong

Published 15 November 1997

From M. Daughton

MDAUGHTON@derwent.co.uk

In the article, “Blessed is the weak”
(11 October, p 28), there appears to be
a mistake in one of the illustrations. The Feynman diagram 1b is supposed to
represent the collision of two photons to produce an electron-positron pair. It
actually appears to represent the collision between an electron and a photon
with the subsequent re-emission of the photon.

Issue no. 2108 published 15 November 1997

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