Monday, March 07, 2005

Bosons from Fermions or Fermions from Bosons!?!

I want to take your attention to a recent proceeding paper by the grandmaster Anthony Zee. I didn't have a chance for an in-depth look but it is certainly thought provoking at the first sight.

He is challenging the idea of thinking fermions as more fundamental than bosons since you can make bosons as bound states of fermions but not vice versa. He is reminding us a very old result that "eigenstates of a charged boson in the presence of a magnetic monopole have half-integral angular momentum". So why can't the fermions be bound states of monopoles and bosons? He wildly continues other speculations. Have fun!

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