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Feb 28, 2010 at 19:39 comment added kakaz As to relation to quantum mechanics, look for informations about Gibbs paradox. You have to put 1/n!, where n - number of particles, in some formulas in order to correctly define some quantities like entropy, which gives You in easy way information that on fundamental level each particle in system is indistinguishable from each other - it is macroscopic manifestation of quantum states.
Jan 6, 2010 at 8:04 history edited S. Carnahan CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jan 6, 2010 at 5:26 comment added S. Carnahan That's too bad (although it does, strictly speaking, answer the first set of questions). I'll add another link I found.
Jan 6, 2010 at 5:26 comment added Anton Petrunin See my comment to Yuri's answer for the second part...
Jan 6, 2010 at 5:04 comment added Anton Petrunin Thanks for ref, I checked it --- there is no real explanation there --- Roughly it says that if bodies have real size then it should not work...
Jan 6, 2010 at 4:42 history edited S. Carnahan CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jan 6, 2010 at 4:36 history answered S. Carnahan CC BY-SA 2.5