
Why can't two electrons be in the same place?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Spin Statistics Theorem
Some people say no fermions are things that do this that don't overlap with each other They follow the poly exclusion principle and it's because they have spin one half. This is how electron spin was discovered. It's too mathematical to explain but if you like dig into the quantum field theory these particles can't pile up on top of each other or be in the same place at the same time. That's fundamentally where this comes from.
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