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Why can't two electrons be in the same place?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Bias of Electrons in Metals Conductors

The reason we have all these complex structures and complex behavior the periodic table comes from electron orbitals. They only do that because of the poly exclusion principle Otherwise, they would always just be in the lowest energy level. The issue really does have to do with the quantum nature of these things so fermions electrons and even protons which are built out of quarks These things have a really weird property that we've never seen in classical physics.

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