Reply to comment on ``A simple explanation of the non-appearance of physical gluons and quarks"

Abstract

This is the reply to a comment by Andreas Aste [hep-th/0302103] on a previous article of mine in Can.J.Phys. The counter-arguments used by Aste utilize a mathematical limit without physical meaning. We still contend that in QCD, the particles ``gluons'' and ``quarks'' are merely artifacts of an approximation method (the perturbative expansion) and are simply absent in the exact theory.

Comments: 2 pages, to appear in Can.J.Phys