Re: Not quite magic physics

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 24 1999 - 06:08:55 MDT


At 10:15 AM 23/08/99 -0400, John Clark wrote:

>The Pauli Exclusion Principle
>explains why you can put many particles with integer spin,
>like photons in the same quantum state but no two particles with
>half integer spin, like electrons, can be.

Hence the well-known photonics theme: `We're all bosons in this optic bus'.

Damien Broderick



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