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By the way Fredrik - your criticism of Brian Greene stating that "everything has a speed c through spacetime" is utterly misplaced. This is in lecture number one of every good undergraduate course on special relativity - completely correct and not in the least misleading. Look at the metric and...

Dear all, Let me add a bit more by way of clarification, because I think it's interesting. I've already posted a detailed analysis of the behaviour of a two proton - two electron system, and shown how the exclusion principle leads to a covalent bond in a Hydrogen molecule. Let me paste a couple...

Seems to be some confusion here about the Pauli Principle. Jeff Forshaw and myself write about it in detail in our book The Quantum Universe, chapter 8. The essential point is that two widely separated hydrogen atoms should not be treated as isolated systems. If you'd like to see how we teach...