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To: aruanan
A stupid question from an uninformed person: How does one determine which photon is the distant cousin in a universe of infinite space?
9 posted on 08/19/2002 7:03:44 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
How does one determine which photon is the distant cousin in a universe of infinite space?

DNA testing? Actually photons don't have half integer spin, they're Bosons. Only Fermions - a particle, such as an electron, a proton, or a neutron, having half-integral spin and obeying statistical rules requiring that not more than one in a set of identical particles may occupy a particular quantum state - seem to governed by these rules. So if I put a Fermion here in the Good Ol' USA in one quantum state, instantly some other particle in Iraq has to assume a different quantum state. Interesting. Find the ones linked to a prominent politician running for the President of Iraq and tweak.

13 posted on 08/19/2002 7:43:23 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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