Kaden Hazzard on the exotic nature of Paraparticles

About this episode

Dr. Kaden Hazzard discusses the concept of paraparticles and their implications in particle physics.

The world we live in is believed to be divided into two fundamental families of particles--Fermions and Bosons. Today, we're sitting in Dr. Kaden Hazzard's beautiful office at Rice University in Houston, who along with his student, proposed a robust third class of particles called paraparticles. An astonishingly simple operation of swapping any two particles, is what it takes to reveal their nature. We know that Bosons obey BE statistics and Fermions obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. But what abou...

People in this episode

Guest: Kaden Hazzard

Topics covered

• paraparticles
• Fermions
• Bosons
• particle physics
• quantum statistics

Keywords

• paraparticles
• Fermions
• Bosons
• quantum physics
• particle families

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Organizations: Rice University

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