Pauli talks more about cosmic rays and the occurence of light particles (electrons) in showers.
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Pauli reacts sharply on "non-scientific secondary conditions" of certain publishers as regards the racial origin of scientific authors. He talks further about cosmic ray experiments and their interpretation.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli gives a synopsis of his planned paper at the Solvay congress. He makes more comments on Heisenberg's damping-terms in the scattering of mesons by protons.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli writes of the decision to postpone the congress because of the political situation.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli has read with great interest Heisenberg's paper on the S-matrix, but as no method is given how to determine it, the work remains purely programatic.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli does not believe that there exists a key for derivation of a quantum S-matrix from an arbitrary classical Hamiltonian. Without a theory which determines e2/(n.c) no real progress is possible.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli asks Heisenberg for a contribution to a special issue of "Dialectica" about complementarity.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli is glad that Heisenberg will write an article for Dialectica, and that he has been able to visit England. He writes him to read a paper by Lewis, a pupil of Oppenheimer in: Phys. Rev., 15 January 1948.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli thanks Heisenberg for the corrections to the Dialectica article. No formalism which takes into account only protons and electrons can be final. He and Heisenberg agree that the masses of elementary particles are not fundamental constants that they will result as eigenvalues from a future theory. But the concept of "universal length" does not seem useful to Pauli.
Pauli, WolfgangPauli writes about the planned Bohr Festschrift. He makes some remarks about Bohr's attempt to create a kind of a religion of complementarity as in former times one has made "energetics" into a sort of "world religion". But the basis of physics is too narrow for such attempts. One should resist the natural impulse which grows with age, to bring everything under one roof.
Pauli, Wolfgang