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I DESIRE to express to Prof. Nagaoka my regret at my misinterpretation of his letter to NATURE of February 25, which was due simply to my failure to find any mention there of the larger system of which he speaks. No doubt his ring is quasi-stable if the central positive charge is large enough; but is it allowable to leave out of account the rest of the system? Waiving this objection, I would point out that there are upper limits to the central charge which cannot be exceeded without making the whole system positive, or the velocity of the ring greater than that of light. It may very well be that either limit is too low to allow a stable system to be reached; the discussion of this point must be reserved for another time.
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SCHOTT, G. On a Dynamical System illustrating Spectrum Lines. Nature 70, 176 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070176b0
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