Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Qwinn
There is no concept of the "same" electron. Any two electrons (they can be counted) may be exchanged with no change in observables (the wave function changes sign though.) This can be shown by studying the statistics of electons (Fermi-Dirac.) Thus the question cannot be answered because no experiment (real or imagined) can tell if two appearences of an electron are the "same" electron.

Electrons have no internal labels.
134 posted on 11/16/2003 9:35:19 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies ]


To: Doctor Stochastic
Didn't someone once quip, "There is only one electron"?
136 posted on 11/16/2003 9:42:17 PM PST by js1138
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies ]

To: Doctor Stochastic
I honestly don't know the precise details of how the notion of piggy-backing across electrons was discredited... I have absolutely no idea what words I could use to google-search for it, heh. I'm not up enough on the necessary terminology. I may know someone who knows the source though, I'll ask 'em and see if they can provide me with the docs.

Qwinn
137 posted on 11/16/2003 9:46:28 PM PST by Qwinn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson