Bosons

/ˈboʊzɑnz/ noun

Definition

Subatomic particles with integer spin that mediate the fundamental forces of nature, such as photons (light) and W and Z bosons (weak force).

Etymology

Named after Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose in 1926 by Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac. The word entered physics terminology during the quantum mechanics revolution of the early 20th century.

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The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012, is the celebrity of the boson world—it's the particle that gives other particles mass, and finding it took thousands of scientists and the world's largest particle accelerator, but it's still fundamentally invisible to us.

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