{"id":203516,"date":"2025-01-10T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-math-suggests-impossible-third-type-of-particle-could-exist"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:31:46","slug":"new-math-suggests-impossible-third-type-of-particle-could-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-math-suggests-impossible-third-type-of-particle-could-exist","title":{"rendered":"New Math Suggests \u2018Impossible\u2019 Third Type of Particle Could Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-math-suggests-impossible-third-type-of-particle-could-exist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has long classified particles into just two distinct types: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">fermions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">bosons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now physicists from Rice University in the US have found a third type might be possible after all, at least mathematically speaking. Known as a paraparticles, their behavior could imply the existence of elementary particles nobody has ever considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined that new types of particles we never knew of before are possible,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rice.edu\/news\/2025\/mathematical-methods-point-possibility-particles-long-thought-impossible\">says<\/a> Kaden Hazzard, who with co-author Zhiyuan Wang formulated a theory to demonstrate how objects that weren\u2019t fermions or bosons could exist in physical reality without breaking any known laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics has long classified particles into just two distinct types: fermions and bosons. Now physicists from Rice University in the US have found a third type might be possible after all, at least mathematically speaking. Known as a paraparticles, their behavior could imply the existence of elementary particles nobody has ever considered. \u201cWe determined [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203516","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\/203516","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}