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20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

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Knots, Spin, and the Periodic Table

This chapter discusses the importance of knottedness and its connection to the periodic table, chemical elements, fermions, and bosons. It explores how bosons and fermions behave differently when it comes to being in the same state and how this relates to the spin statistics theorem. The chapter also touches on the two different prescriptions for treating objects quantum mechanically and the topological aspect of particles.

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