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> Calling it “matter” is already making a huge set of assumptions.

Not really. "Matter" is not really a formal term of art, but in practice it usually means "not an elementary boson", or at the strictest "fermionic".

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Are there any massive elementary bosons that we currently know of?

The W and Z bosons[1] have mass, a fair bit of it actually.

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0 pointsconsilient3y ago0 comments

> Calling it “matter” is already making a huge set of assumptions.

Not really. "Matter" is not really a formal term of art, but in practice it usually means "not an elementary boson", or at the strictest "fermionic".

Are there any massive elementary bosons that we currently know of?

The W and Z bosons[1] have mass, a fair bit of it actually.

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