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Re:An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum worl... by mrami on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:39PM (#28989904)
A bit of a tangent, but boson vs. fermion is not a massless/massive split. There are massive bosons. Rather, it's a split on the qualities of the objects' spin, and thus whether they obey the Pauli exclusion principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson

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Re:An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum worl... by nanomonkey on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:15PM (#28991889)
Ah yes, you're correct. I see that I remembered that incorrectly.
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