[hotreds]

Out in force these last few weeks! An electron and a proton may be combined to form an electrically neutral object, but their total spin is an integer and the combined object,
as a result, cannot be a fermion. If there were no neutrons, the question of whether the spin of a nucleus takes on integer or half-integer values would have to be determined
entirely by whether Z is even or odd. This is not found to be true in practice, and a model of the nucleus made of protons and electrons cannot be correct, as it violates
the fundamental relationship between spin and quantum statistics