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Bose-Einstein condensate Bose-Fermi universe States of matter Commentary

Satyendra Nath Bose, Albert Einstein physics

Bose-Einstein condensate

Satyendra Nath Bose realized that two photons with equal energy are indistinguishable which means that the probability of heads and tails is the same as tails and heads and thereby he invented a new statistics to describe black-body radiation which led Albert Einstein to realize that some particles did not behave like particles and thereby predicted they could condense into a new form of matter in which the particles share a quantum state.

Bose-Fermi universe

We have bosons, named after Satyendra Nath Bose, that can share the same quantum state at the same time, such as photons, and fermions, named after Enrico Fermi, that cannot share a quantum state at the same time, such as electrons, make up a universe of elementary and composite particles and considerable charged spaces between them.

States of matter

Solid, liquid, gas, and other weird states teach us to always say “maybe.” Get serious, to have fun for a certain wacky effect. Helium may crawl up walls, ceramics may superconduct, particles may interact when light-years apart, and even a fool may sometimes be right.

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