AMA | September 2024

11749.336 - 11772.284 Sean Carroll

Those are fun analogies and cool things to look at, but they are missing really important parts of the complexity story, I think. Dan Cohen says, in Quanta and Fields, you explain that it is the exclusion principle that keeps solids solid and stops matter from being compressed and not the electromagnetic force. If that is so, why doesn't the exclusion principle count as a force? It does.