{"id":204202,"date":"2025-01-21T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/theres-a-third-type-of-particle-and-we-never-knew"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:25:28","slug":"theres-a-third-type-of-particle-and-we-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/theres-a-third-type-of-particle-and-we-never-knew","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Third Type of Particle and We Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KdYYEMclYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out my own course on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Up until last week, physicists believed that matter is made up of only two types of particles: those whose spin has full-integer values (bosons) and those whose spin comes has half-integer values (fermions). But in a new paper, a group of researchers turned the world of physics upside down by mathematically proving that a third type of particles \u2013 the \u201cparaparticles\u201d are possible.<\/p>\n<p>Paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s4158\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s4158<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>#science #sciencenews #physics #math<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my own course on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine. Up until last week, physicists believed that matter is made up of only two types of particles: those whose spin has full-integer values (bosons) and those whose spin comes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-open-access","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204202","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}