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The Quantum Universe

and who did not cover up a defeat by lamentation and nonfactual arguments . . . He loved his absolute ether, his field equations, his rigid electron, just as a youth loves his first flame, whose memory no later experience can extinguish.’ If only all of one’s opponents were like Abraham.

Our goal in the remainder of this chapter is to explain why it is that electrons behave in the strange way articulated by the Exclusion Principle. As ever, we shall make good use of those quantum clocks.

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Figure 7.3. Two electrons scattering.

We can attack the question by thinking about what happens when two electrons ‘bounce’ off each other. Figure 7.3 illustrates a particular scenario where two electrons, labelled ‘1’ and ‘2’, start out somewhere and end up somewhere else. We have labelled the final locations A and B. The shaded blobs are there to remind us that we have not yet thought about just what happens when two electrons interact with each other (the details are irrelevant for the purposes 126

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