Science News, February 27th, 1988
Violating a not-so-exclusive exclusion principle
The Pauli exclusion principle stands at the basis of the structure and stability of matter. It prevents, atoms, nuclei and larger structures, up to and including neutron stars, from collapsing on themselves. It does so by decreeing that no two particles of the class called fermions that have the same set of properties (the same quantum numbers) can be in the same place at the same time. The particles of physics are divided into fermions and bosons, and while any number of bosons can be in the same place, the exclusion principle maintains stru...
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