
Why can't two electrons be in the same place?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Impossibility of Swapping Two Identical Particles
There's something weird and different about fermions that picks up their you know like move them around. The universe just doesn't do this the wave function for two fermions being in the same state is always zero That way you can satisfy both rules that swapping two identical particles doesn't change anything And that the wave function gets a negative sign. There's no example in the natural world that you can think about with baseballs or coffee cups that is like this It's most closely connected to rotating things like if you take your coffee cup and you spin it around 360 degrees Like if because they have a certain spin and when you try to do this swapping then some weird things happen.
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