Reply to the comment by A. Aste on "A simple explanation of the nonappearance of physical gluons and quarks"

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This is the reply to a comment by Andreas Aste on a previous article of mine in the Canadian Journal of Physics 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. PACS Nos.: 12.38.Aw, 03.70.+k, 11.15.–q