Wu replies

The preceding Comment [1] on my Letter [2] and Haldane?s Letter [3] cites three old papers by Anghel [4], which contained an unfounded claim that the thermodynamics derived in Ref. [2] for a generalized ideal gas, based on the generalized Pauli principle proposed in Ref. [3], is physically inconsistent. Reference [4], as well as [5], invoked the division of a species into subspecies in an attempt to claim that the mutual statistics parameters cannot be constant as proposed in [2,3]. In this reply I explain why the argument and the claim in Refs. [4,5] were at least seriously flawed and, therefore, failed to be a credible challenge to Refs. [2,3]. At the end of this Reply I explain why the Comment [1] still contains a serious misconception of subspecies division.