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CONSIDERATIONS of Heitler, Nordheim and Teller1, based on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, show that Newtonian gravitation has only a macroscopic significance; further, in the theory of ultimate particles, it is necessary to introduce a finite length, a, of approximately 10–13 cm. (radius of electron or of light nuclei), which is not justified theoretically if we use Euclidean geometry or Einstein's gravitational curvature.
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MARIANI, J. Non-Euclidean Geometry in Microscopic Space. Nature 143, 683 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143683a0
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