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    What led Emiliano from physics to philosophy of science?

    Hallow everyone, my name is Emiliano. I studied Physics at the Universities of Padua (Italy) and Berkeley (CA). I then moved on to do a career in academic philosophy. I did a PhD in the Philosophy of Science at the LSE (UK) and I have been working in the philosophy of time for a number of years...
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    I Why is the Pauli Exclusion Principle not a force?

    Thanks for your reply, Bill! I have a related question. Two electrons occupying the same orbital but with opposite spins ARE actually occupying the same (quantistic) location. There is no repulsive "force" acting between them in that case (in virtue of PEP). But what if all other degrees of...
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    I Why is the Pauli Exclusion Principle not a force?

    @dsanz: I think that's a very interesting question. I'm sorry I don't have an answer. but I have another question in the neighbourhood which might help. speaking very loosely, the reason you probably have to think that PEP should count as a force, is that you expect nature to oppose our attempts...
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