Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient

Physics Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredientNeither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that they could explain reality at its deepest level By Miriam Frankel 20 July 2026 Facebook Threads X / Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Reddit Email Print Stephan Schmitz Order and chaos. Nature and nurture. Yin and yang. We are fond of carving the world into two. And physics, at first, seems to oblige. Take the universe’s unruly zoo of fundamental particles and it seems to fall into two camps. Boil it all down and you have matter and forces. Together, they make up a pleasingly simple recipe for reality. Except physics has a way of spoiling simple recipes.

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