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According to my professor, when I was taking quantum mechanics a few years back, the view that Feynman is prevented from falling through his chair by electromag
by __MatrixMan__ 6y ago
According to my professor, when I was taking quantum mechanics a few years back, the view that Feynman is prevented from falling through his chair by electromagnetic repulsion is somewhat antiquated. She told us that a more modern perspective puts a greater focus on the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Of course that line of explanation falls to similar loop, re: why do fermions resist sharing state?
- Koshkin 6y agoI would like to mention the possibility of tunneling through the chair (however small).
- BeetleB 6y agoIndeed, and Freeman Dyson demonstrated this: In 1966, independently of Elliott H. Lieb and Walter Thirring, Dyson and Andrew Lenard published a paper proving that the Pauli exclusion principle plays the main role in the stability of bulk matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson