From: Stuart Armstrong (dragondreaming@googlemail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 03:09:25 MST
> On the
> Extropian List I used nothing but
> The Identity of Indiscernibles and high school algebra to derive The
> Pauli Exclusion Principle; and that is the root of chemistry, and that
> is the root of biology. By the way I'm rather pleased with that
> derivation.
Sounds rather impressive - do you still have the derivation? And what
assumptions do you put into it - basically how did you distinguish
bosons (which don't obey the exclusion principle) from fermions?
Indiscernibles wouldn't be enough.
Stuart
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