The Knowmads Podcast
The Knowmads Podcast
The Knowmads
Kaden Hazzard on the exotic nature of Paraparticles
59 minutes Posted May 23, 2025 at 4:00 pm.
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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...