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Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons mostly include particles that carry forces, such as photons, while fermions make up ordinary matter, including electrons, protons, and neutrons.
That simple division starts to break down in lower dimensional systems. Since the 1970s, scientists have predicted the existence of a third type of particle known as an anyon...
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