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by mrami 1700 days ago
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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Ah yes, you're correct. I see that I remembered that incorrectly.