I just whoa ' d out loud . <| sep |> No one would accept the results without question if it happened to swing the results that wildly from one count to the next . This isn ' t an audit , either . It ' s just a recount . Meaning , they aren ' t getting into who voted , if they were legal or not , etc . <| sep |> Unfortunately doesn ' t ship to my US address . <| sep |> You know what you have to do . murder her <| sep |> I think we ' re in too deep to be in the front page post now . <| sep |> So is the entire universe , in princible , a quantum system ? If yes , then PEP needs to apply in the entire universe . This is correct . Hence there are no two electrons in the universe that are in the same state . So therefore , for example , every spin up electron at the lowest energy orbital of a hydrogen atom needs to be different from each other . This is incorrect . It ' s partly incorrect because you ' re not using the mathematically precise statement of the Pauli principle see my toplevel answer for more on that . It ' s partly incorrect because you misunderstand how we construct states in quantum mechanics . The thing you ' re assuming here is that you can describe 2 hydrogen atoms , each with an electron in the 1 s orbital as being equivalent to the state of 1 hydrogen atom with an electron in a 1 s orbital , plus a 2 nd hydrogen atom with an electron in a 1 s orbital . This doesn ' t work in quantum mechanics . Or to be more precise , if the atoms are far apart it is approximately correct but not exact . What you ' re saying is basically right , the quantum mechanical state where there is 1 hydrogen atom over here with an electron in the 1 s state and a 2 nd hydrogen atom over there with an electron in the 1 s state is not allowed by the Pauli exclusion principle . If you swapped the 2 electrons the state would not change . But we do , in nature , see systems that are very similar to one hydrogen atom with an electron in the 1 s state plus a 2 nd identical hydrogen atom . So , what ' s going on ? What ' s happening is that the allowed electron states of the 2 hydrogen atom system , even if the atome are far apart , are not exactly the same as sums of the single hydrogen atom electron states . If you solve the problem exactly you find that instead of electronic state being exactly 1 s 1 s , the lowestlying state of the total system is something that if the 2 atoms are far apart looks very similar to something like 1 s 1 s , but it is subtly different in precisely the right way so that the Pauli principle is satisfied . A very long discussion can be found 73 i n t r o d u c toryquantummechanicsifall 2005 lecturenotessec 13 . pdf .