2003/04/18 by W. J. Mullin, G. Blaylock · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.ed-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1119/1.1590658
26 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to American Journal of Physics
arxiv created 2003/04/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Physicists often claim that there is an effective repulsion between fermions, implied by the Pauli principle, and a corresponding effective attraction between bosons. We examine the origins of such exchange force ideas, the validity for them, and the areas where they are highly misleading. We propose that future explanations of quantum statistics should avoid the idea of a effective force completely and replace it with more appropriate physical insights, some of which are suggested here.