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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 Pauli Exclusion Principle for Quantum States and Fermions

The Pauli exclusion principle basically just says that you cannot have two fermions in the same quantum state. These are the particles that make up matter so corks and electrons are fermions And this is why for example you can't have two electrons in the same state around a hydrogen atom. There's an interesting difference between these two kinds of particles The first one the fermions you can never have two of them in the sameState Two electrons can never be in the samestate But the other group the force carrying particles these bosons there's no limit like you can have two photons in the same states 10 photons in the Same State A million photons all piled on top of each other

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