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

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 16 April 2008 08:42:00PM 1 point [-]

And if you apply an operation that excites one atom to a BEC in the ground state, you always get the same result: a BEC with one excited atom. I assume you can't consider the atoms separately and be physically realistic.