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Fermions Vs. Bosons Explained with Statistical Mechanics!
Season 9
Episode 12
If I roll a pair of dice and you get to bet on one number, what do you choose? The smart choice is 7 because there are more ways for 2 dice to come up 7 than any other number. Well, it turns out that you can apply the same logic to predicting the behavior of the universe.
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