On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > How do you derive fermions and bosons from comp? > I don't know how to derive fermions and bosons from nothing but arithmetic but you can do the next best thing. If the Schrodinger wave function for a particle is a odd function, that is F(x) = -F(-x), then it's a fermion and the probability of 2 fermions occupying the same quantum state is zero, in other words it obeys the Pauli Exclusion Principle and is the reason that the ground beneath your feet, which is made of fermions, is solid and you don't sink to the center of the Earth. If the Schrodinger wave function for a particle is a even function, that is F(x) = F(-x), then it's a boson and it can ignore the Pauli Exclusion Principle and is the reason light rays, made of bosons, don't scramble each other when they collide at right angles, light particles can occupy the same quantum state and thus can pass through each other and be completely unaffected; it's the reason the light rays that enter our eye are not a hopeless chaotic jumble of information randomized by a astronomical large number of collisions with other photons. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
