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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Re: The atom named 'Joe' ( was Re: ''...distinction between a ...)
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Date: 29 Mar 92 02:54:26 GMT
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In article <1992Mar28.211255.10399@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>... but elementary particles lack individual identities, -- how
>could you name a mere aggregate of such "things" anything at all?  Try it
>on the macro level, as requested.

 As I recall, some classes of elementary particles lack individual
 identity, BUT NOT ALL.   The famous 'Pauli exclusion principle'
 expresses the fact that ELECTRONS are indistinguishable, however
 Atoms and , I believe some classes of subatomic particles, ARE IN FACT
 *distinguishable* !!  You may recall the well publicized media event a few
 years ago, when some physicists succeeded in filming over time 
 A SINGLE ATOM.  We are quite justified in naming THAT atom 'Joe' !!!!


