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Quantum Radiation in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses

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The world as perceived by scientists is nowadays believed to be governed by four fundamental forces.

Fiat lux.

Genesis 1:3

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

James C. Maxwell

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Mackenroth, K.F. (2014). Introduction. In: Quantum Radiation in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07740-6_1

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