{"id":208058,"date":"2025-03-07T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/can-a-particle-be-neither-matter-nor-force"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:13:00","slug":"can-a-particle-be-neither-matter-nor-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/can-a-particle-be-neither-matter-nor-force","title":{"rendered":"Can a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor Force?"},"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\/26ZmKqLNSZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra + up to 20Gb Saily data here \u27bc <a href=\"https:\/\/nordvpn.com\/spacetime\">https:\/\/nordvpn.com\/spacetime<\/a> It\u2019s risk-free with Nord\u2019s 30-day money-back guarantee!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All particles belong to two large groups: fermions like protons and electrons make everything we consider \u201cmatter\u201d, while bosons like photons and gluons transmit the fundamental forces. And that about covers the universe: matter moving through space and time under the action of forces. But what if we could create particles in between these two possibilities. Physics says these neither matter nor force anyons can exist, and they may have some pretty incredible uses. They\u2019re called anyons.<\/p>\n<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/can-a-particle-be-neither-matter-nor-force\">Continue reading \u201cCan a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor Force?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra + up to 20Gb Saily data here \u27bc https:\/\/nordvpn.com\/spacetime It\u2019s risk-free with Nord\u2019s 30-day money-back guarantee! Check out the Space Time Merch Store. https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop. Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime. All particles belong to two large groups: fermions like protons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208058","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=208058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}