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caraher

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3. Maybe something about photons rather than protons?

Reply to NNadir (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:15 PM

Jan 2019

Photons are spin-1 bosons, so they definitely obey Bose-Einstein statistics.

It's also the case that some systems of fermions behave as bosons. One notable example of this is the formation of Cooper pairs in superconductors; a Cooper pair consists of two electrons interacting with phonons of a metal lattice.

Anyway, no need to provide for excuses... we all get misconceptions, and the nice thing about science is that ones like this are easily straightened out!

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An extraordinarily high neutron capture cross section has been discovered in a zirconium isotope. [View all] NNadir Jan 2019 OP

One quick correction caraher Jan 2019 #1

You're right and I'm wrong. NNadir Jan 2019 #2

Maybe something about photons rather than protons? caraher Jan 2019 #3

And another nice thing is when you make a mistake you learn something. NNadir Jan 2019 #4

Errata. NNadir Jan 2019 #5