title: Simulation test of hard-body colloidal physics.
abstract: Recent work has raised serious doubts as to whether widely used current statistical mechanical methods are applicable to model colloidal systems. This Letter reports a simulation test strongly supporting a complex scenario that has important implications for the future development of theoretical colloidal physics.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Herring
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Henderson