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Bosons and Fermions

So I read a little about quantum computing and somehow ended up learning that every particle in the universe is either a boson or a fermion 😄

Fermions (electrons, protons, neutrons) have half integer spin and an antisymmetric wave function. Bosons (like photons) have integer spin and a symmetric wave function.

One thing I found interesting: Helium 4 behaves as a boson because its total spin is 0.

And then I suddenly remembered an episode from The Big Bang Theory 😄. Turns out those boson vs fermion jokes hit differently when you actually know what they are.