{"id":203412,"date":"2025-01-09T03:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/mathematical-methods-point-to-possibility-of-particles-long-thought-impossible"},"modified":"2025-01-09T03:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:38:36","slug":"mathematical-methods-point-to-possibility-of-particles-long-thought-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/mathematical-methods-point-to-possibility-of-particles-long-thought-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical methods point to possibility of particles long thought impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-methods-point-to-possibility-of-particles-long-thought-impossible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have thought that all particles can be categorized into one of two groups\u2014bosons or fermions\u2014based on their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>However, new research by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former Rice graduate student Zhiyuan Wang shows the possibility of particles that are neither bosons nor fermions. Their study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08262-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, mathematically demonstrates the potential existence of paraparticles that have long been thought impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined that new types of particles we never knew of before are possible,\u201d said Hazzard, associate professor of physics and astronomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have thought that all particles can be categorized into one of two groups\u2014bosons or fermions\u2014based on their behavior. However, new research by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former Rice graduate student Zhiyuan Wang shows the possibility of particles that are neither bosons nor fermions. Their study, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}