Talk:Pauli effect

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Most physicist see the Pauli effect as a humorous anecdote. i was a bit surprised too see, that somebody added the claim that Pauli considered it as real. In order to first present the "orthodox" view, I moved down the respective paragraph. I also took the liberty to insert an "allegedly". After all, we do not have a quote by Pauli himself saying so. The mentioned biography is known and acclaimed as good, but the mentioned collegue quite unknown. (To the fact: It sounds credible though not too likely that Pauli did believe it. He was known to be very interested in psychology and parapsychology. And parapsychology had a much better standing with open-minded but still rigorous scientist then more than now, as then experiments seemed to show psi effects. Now, more carefully designed experiments rule such stuff out, and statistical science can explain its appearence well. But all this of course belongs into another article...) Simon A. 09:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

The German page on the Pauli Effect tells that Pauli was on his way to Copenhagen, not Zurich. He lived in Zurich, so maybe this is the reason for the mixup? --Yooden