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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 Universe Is Mathematical

No two electrons or no two quarks can be kind of on top of each other Not out there in free space and not orbiting around an atom which is what gives us the You wonderful chemistry that makes us who we are. The reason that two fermions or two electrons or two quark can't do this is because it Meshes up the math. It seems like the universe does follow mathematical laws and the universe is self-consistent Right the universe doesn't have like two things going on at the same time or things that contradict each other So it might just be that you can have lots of different universes out there But only the ones that are self-Consistent that follow mathematical laws

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