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    Graduate Photons - the smallest building block?

    It's conceivable photons of constructively interfering wavelengths, properties, or some other ad hoc mechanism would allow for photon binding. Intuitively signs point to the photon as a fundamental constituent of nature. I suppose all we can do is wait for experimental data. As I understand...
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    Graduate Where Can I Find Pauli's Original Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem?

    If you email it to me I will host it.
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    Graduate String Theory: Why not 3d+1 Dimensional?

    My understanding is the formulation of string theory requires n-dimensions for the satisfying degrees of freedom of a string. However, why is typical 3d spacetime insufficient in providing the appropriate degrees of freemdom? Is there any functional model of string theory which doesn't implement...