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NNadir

(33,515 posts)
2. You're right and I'm wrong.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 09:06 PM
Jan 2019

That's what happens when you get old, and rely too much on memory.

A quick google demonstrated my mistake.

Early in my career I had to perform an experiment involving the sorting of small beads into multiple containers under quasi-random conditions, which was a Bose-Einstein statistical problem, and my memory told me that the place from which this idea this came was from from protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei. Now I have to remember how I came to know about Bose Einstein statistics.

Sorry about that. I'm a chemist, not a physicist, if that's an excuse.

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