Boson (Noun)
Meaning
Any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle in the Standard Model of particle physics that explains how other particles acquire mass.
- In the universe, bosons are the force-carrying particles that mediate the fundamental forces of nature, such as photons and gluons.
- The discovery of the W and Z bosons in the 1980s confirmed the existence of the electroweak force, a fundamental force of nature.
- Bosons are the quanta of the fields that permeate space and time, and they play a crucial role in the behavior of matter and energy.
- Theoretical physicists have proposed the existence of new bosons, such as the graviton, which is thought to mediate the force of gravity.