amcknight comments on Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: amcknight 09 February 2011 03:38:36AM 0 points [-]

Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like you and Bob might both be wrong. Bob says the 2 separate particles can't be shown to be identical. You say that the 2 separate particles are shown to be equivalent. But I think QM shows that there aren't 2 separate particles. Maybe you could say something weaker, "like this configuration has a particality of 2".