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atyy said:Actually, in my exchange with Physics Monkey, I think we were thinking the claim in the paper of the OP (not the Danan paper) is technically right but use of English is bizarre. I guess this might be the same as you saying about the Danan paper that the calculation is legit, but not necessarily the interpretation.