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perihelions ◴[] No.43546675[source]
I'm not sure what's supposed to be publication-worthy here. This is common knowledge for anyone who's ever interacted with sheep on a farm, in their natural, fermionic superfluid state. If you turn over a sheep and tickle its ticklish underbelly, you get a sheep-laugh (a hilarious sound) only about 50% of the time; the other 50%, you'll hear a sheep laughing from the opposite end of the meadow. Because, you cannot definitively say if it was *this* sheep you tickled, or *that* other, identical one. They are indistinguishable baa-tickles
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fguerraz ◴[] No.43547500[source]
So sheep are fermions? Is that why you can't have two sheep at the same place in the state? (up and down sheep can be stacked no problem, there's plenty of empirical evidence of this)
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1. perihelions ◴[] No.43549482[source]
- "So sheep are fermions?"

Have you ever seen two sheep spinning in the same direction while superimposed in the same physical volume? Outside of Minecraft.

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2. nicerob2010 ◴[] No.43552912[source]
Yes, but only after a few shrooms and a lot of tequila
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3. krowfromthewall ◴[] No.43555913[source]
are the shrooms and tequila consumed by you or the sheep?
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4. nicerob2010 ◴[] No.43557407{3}[source]
Yes...