GoodTaste
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Boson: an elementary particle that has zero or integral spin and obeys statistical rules that place no restriction on the number of identical particles that may be in the same state.
Source: It appears to be from Microsoft Bing Dictionary
Here the identical particles apparently refer back to the elementary particles mentioned at the very beginning of the sentence. Why this thread then? My grammatical sense is not sharp enough to figure this out at the first glance - because the grammar doesn't use an definite particle "the" here. If it were "the number of such particles that are identicle", then there would be no problem in understanding it (but the grammar would be awkward of course). I wonder whether you native speakers could figure out what the identical particles" point to at your glance of it.
Do you figure it out by grammar or by logic? I get it by the latter. The grammar is still not crystal clear to me.
Source: It appears to be from Microsoft Bing Dictionary
Here the identical particles apparently refer back to the elementary particles mentioned at the very beginning of the sentence. Why this thread then? My grammatical sense is not sharp enough to figure this out at the first glance - because the grammar doesn't use an definite particle "the" here. If it were "the number of such particles that are identicle", then there would be no problem in understanding it (but the grammar would be awkward of course). I wonder whether you native speakers could figure out what the identical particles" point to at your glance of it.
Do you figure it out by grammar or by logic? I get it by the latter. The grammar is still not crystal clear to me.
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