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The bottom-line answer is because that is how nature works! However, there are somewhat less profound explanations, but they are really just rules which say that this must happen -- and don't ultimately answer "Why?".

The Pauli Exclusion Principle says that all electrons in an atom must have four unique quantum numbers -- no two can have all four the same. This rule forbids more than 2 electrons existing in the same orbital because there are two possible quantum numbers available for that orbital -- electron spin of +1/2 and -1/2.

But again, this rule just says that there can't be more than 2 electrons per orbital because of the uniqueness of quantum numbers -- but it doesn't say why quantum numbers must be unique! In the end, it really just is the way it because that's the way it is!

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