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Pauli Repulsions Exist Only in the Eye of the Beholder
Author(s) -
Bader Richard F. W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.200501589
Subject(s) - rebuttal , observable , pauli exclusion principle , theoretical physics , virial theorem , physics , feynman diagram , quantum mechanics , quantum , statistical physics , classical mechanics , mathematics , mathematical physics , law , galaxy , political science
This paper presents a rebuttal to the preceding paper in this issue entitled “Hydrogen‐Hydrogen Bonding in Planar Biphenyl, Predicted by Atoms‐In‐Molecules Theory, Does Not Exist”. The arguments presented therein are based on an arbitrary partitioning of the energy into contributions from physically unrealizable states of the system. The response given here is presented in terms of the Feynman, Ehrenfest, and virial theorems of quantum mechanics and the observable properties of a system. A reader is thus free to choose between subjectivity or physics.