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Two coins aren't identical, but they're fungible. Is "identical" even well-defined on fundamental-ish particles?



Identical means that either bosonic or fermionic conditions are applied to the joint tensor-product'd wavefunctions of multi-particle systems. It's well defined, and although I was hoping this thread would offer a more grounded definition I am not sure if it succeeded.




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