Does an elementary particle have a unique intrinsic state?
| Abstract | J.M.G. Fell and other authors have asserted that an elementary particle has only one `intrinsic' state. I will argue that this claim is not consistent with the mathematical structures and objects used to represent an elementary particle in relativistic quantum theory. | |||||||||
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