Abstract
I tackle a herculean task - attempting to wean our imagination from the 1-particle picture which, implicitly, we have all been using since our youth. I shall try to entice you to join a crusade for the creation of new concepts and images needed for problems in which interaction between 3 or more electrons is significant and which are appropriate for describing the information encapsulated in the second order reduced density matrix. (“2-matrix” for short) Perhaps the difficult part of our task is changing our language and mental images. It was to this task that we were called by Charles Coulson in private conversation, and in
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