Talk:Hooke's atom

Please clarify whether this is a real physical system or "alternative physics"
I don't mean "alternative physics" in any disparaging way &mdash; one of my favorite exam questions of all time was when I was asked to figure out how the black-body law would look if photons were fermions instead of bosons. In my view this is a perfectly respectable line of inquiry.

But if that's the sort of thing the article is about, I think it at least needs to make that clear.

So is this a real thing that you could create/detect in an arbitrarily well-funded laboratory? Or is it a kind of counterfactual? No need to answer me here necessarily; just please clarify it in the article. --Trovatore (talk) 02:52, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Pretty sure this is a thought experiment rather than a hypothesized substance. Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 14:35, 28 October 2013 (UTC)