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Why are identical particles indistinguishable? (Note that I only take the usual Hilbert space formalism as a given)
I've heard the very vague argument of "two waves overlapping and you can't say which is which" but of course physicists should be able to do better than that.
So does it follow from the formalism? Or is it a separate postulate based on observation?
I've heard the very vague argument of "two waves overlapping and you can't say which is which" but of course physicists should be able to do better than that.
So does it follow from the formalism? Or is it a separate postulate based on observation?