Stability of matter
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In physics, stability of matter refers to the problem of showing rigorously that a large number of charged quantum particles can coexist and form macroscopic objects, like ordinary matter. The first proof was provided by Freeman Dyson and Andrew Lenard in 1967–1968,[1][2] but a shorter and more conceptual proof was found later by Elliott Lieb and Walter Thirring in 1975.[3]