Re: Pauli's exclusion principle

"ganesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> hi,
>    A basic Q: Is pauli's exclusion principle an axiom or can it be
> derived starting from the properties of electromagnetic force +
.......??
> If so how??
>
> ganesh
>

The exclusion principle as presented in Phys. Rev. 58, 716(1940) is not
an easy read. There was an Am J Phys sponsored competition some years
ago to come up with a simpler explanation. See Ian Duck "Pauli and the
Spin-Statistics Theorem," World Scientific (1998) for the details. The
ultimate justification for the exclusion principle is that it's in
accord with the Periodic Table of the Elements.

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HTH,
Gerry T.