Sam Wormley wrote:

PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 656 October 7, 2003 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and
James Riordon

THE 2003 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE goes to Alexei A. Abrikosov (Institute
for Physical Problems in Moscow and now at Argonne National
Laboratory near Chicago), Vitaly L. Ginzburg (Lebedev Physical
Institute, Moscow) and Anthony J. Leggett (University of Illinois,
Urbana) The award goes for work done on systems that operate under
two regimes very far from human experience: the quantum realm and
the low-temperature realm. In superconductivity, a current of
electrons flowing through a material undergoes a change in behavior:
normally reluctant to associate with each other, the electrons at
low temperature can form pairs. These pairs act like particles and
are so gregarious that they can enter into a single unified quantum
state. snippity
Quantum-schmantum ......what crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two electrons are possible in matter (also in antimatter),
one is spinning clockwise wrt the nucleus while it does
its dance (one rotation combined with two precessions),
and the other spins counterclockwise. It is these two
who will share a single orbital; one on one side, and the
other opposite. Both 'face' the nucleus and therefore
share the same spin axis. If an orbital 'needs' an electron
with clockwise spin and there are only the other kind,
it will go without. This is one reason why many reactions
don't go to completion.
When things get real cold and dense, these two oppositely-
spinning electrons 'attract' each other magnetically and
simply form a 'complete' orbital without a nucleus in-between.
John
http://www.petcom.com/~john

'We must start over because you cannot derive a causal theory from a
statistical one. Einstein had an inner vision or intuition about what
was and was not a good fundamental theory. A theory that did not match
that inner vision was sadly lacking no matter how successful it became.
Quantum mechanics did not match this vision and no amount of doctoring
it to cover a wider range of effects or achieve greater accuracy could
help. Quantum field theory, which combines special relativity and
quantum mechanics, was anathema to him.'