“It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.”

La nouvelle dynamique des quanta (1928), translation by [Bacciagaluppi, G., Valentini, A., Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 0521814219, 380]

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