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fermions

n. (plural of fermion English)

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In 1976 Daniel Freedman, Sergio Ferrara, and Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, all then of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, discovered that the most promising were those involving supersymmetry, since the tendency of bosons and fermions to give cancelling quantum fluctuations helps to calm the violent microscopic frenzy.

If your vision could extend a little farther down the ladder of size, you would discover that the atoms are made of fermions and bosons.

The fermions, if you ever found them, would be made of quarks, which themselves occur in several different colors and several different flavors.

Exclusion Principle stated that no two fermions -electrons or quarks - could exist in the same quantum state.