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MIT Physicists Build World's First Fermion Microscope
Zothecula writes: Researchers working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have created a method to better observe fermions – the sub-atomic building blocks of matter – by constructing a microscope capable of viewing them in groups of a thousand at a time. A laser technique is used to herd the fermions into a viewing area and then freeze them in place so all of the captured particles can be imaged simultaneously.
That's because they've been listening to Barry-White-ions.
Most scientists don't know about them because you have to search in lower frequency ranges.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
A laser technique is used to herd the fermions
So ... do fermions most resemble cows, or cats? I'm confused.
Well, fermions are called that because they exhibit Fermi-Dirac statistics, so they're arguably more like cats than cows.
Fermions => cats
Bosons => cows
(Bosons can be herded into the same quantum state, fermions cannot on account of the Pauli exclusion principle.)