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On Wikipedia the following statement is made without reference:

Freeman Dyson showed that the imperviousness of solid matter is due to quantum degeneracy pressure rather than electrostatic repulsion as had been previously assumed.

Can anyone find the appropriate reference(s)?

tmac
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Cameron Smith
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Wikipedia to the rescue!

FJ Dyson and A Lenard: Stability of Matter, Parts I and II (J. Math. Phys., 8, 423-434 (1967); J. Math. Phys., 9, 698-711 (1968) ); FJ Dyson: Ground-State Energy of a Finite System of Charged Particles (J.Math.Phys. 8, 1538-1545 (1967) )

I found the reference in ref 6 of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle

John Rennie
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