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relativity. It may be that between the quantum theory 

 and the generalized phenomenological theory of the 

 electromagnetic field there exists a relation similar to 

 that between the kinetic theory of the gases and the 

 phenomenological gas equation pv=RT. What becomes 

 of the four dimensional continuum of space and time if it 

 has to be atomized or quantified ? 



