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Non-identical electrons can be a modeled example of "field(s) on a higher dimensional space with the structure of configuration space". Picture two popcorn puffs of equal mass, continually changing shape and the continuous mathematical function of the wavefunction, tracing the topological undulation of the condensed matter's unique configuration space of each. The two electrons have all the same physical properties but will each behave alike in their own time.
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