This is why polaritons are important in LENR. Polaritons are electrons that have be converted into bosons with double the spin.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:29 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The Pauli exclusion principle appears to be a rule that captures a portion >> of a deeper underlying physical phenomena. If what I suspect is true then >> one day new particles, etc. will be discovered that do not obey it. > > > Note that there are bosons, which don't obey the Pauli exclusion > principle. You can crowd as many photons into a small space as you want, > because they obey Bose-Einstein statistics rather than Fermi-Dirac > statistics. > > I recall a derivation in which the only difference between the > wavefunctions for bosons and fermions is the presence of a "+" sign or a > "-" sign before one of the terms, but I am not yet familiar with the > derivation. Note that only certain kinds of particles can be described > either by Fermi-Dirac statistics or Bose-Einstein statistics. The > particles must be indistinguishable, there must be negligible "interaction" > between them. (This latter detail is the hallmark of a simplifying > assumption made to make a mathematical model work.) Note also that > Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics are yet another way of describing particle > interactions. > > Eric > >
