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From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
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Subject: Re: Two-electron units
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:26:36 +0000 (UTC)
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john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> writes:

>Hanson
>Cooper pairs, in my construction,
>would be electrons of opposite
>spin sharing an orbital 'sans nucleus'.

>I'm talking about when electrons of
>the same spin are forced by
>circumstance to be neighbours.

Quantum mechanics forbids two electrons from being in the same state.
Having opposite spin is sufficient to be in different states, so Cooper
pairs can exist.

>Hmm. Why am I thinking that
>neutrons are what does this?

Quantum mechanics forbids two neutrons from being in the same state as 
well.