#3027: Exclusion Principle

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Inside the panel, there is an underlined header and a numbered list, with the fifth and last item in red:]

Fundamental Forces

1. Gravity

2. Electromagnetism

3. The Weak Interaction

4. The Strong Interaction

5. Electrons are weird about each other

[Caption below the panel:]

Big news: Physicists have finally given up trying to explain about the "exchange interaction" and agreed to just make the exclusion principle a force.

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.


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