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xkcd #3027: Exclusion Principle (xkcd.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

https://explainxkcd.com/3027/

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[–] style99@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Also known as "things we shrug about" and say "maybe we'll understand these things one day."

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not that I know much about this, but the Pauli principal always struck me as an observation rather than anything like an explanation. As an explanation it's extremely unsatisfying. "Why won't electrons occupy the same space?" "Well.. because of the Pauli principal". No.. that's not the reason, that's just restating what we observe. Glad to see physicists find it weird too (as is suggested in the comic)

[–] Zidane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

I gotta ask, what's with the three spaces between sentences?