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  • adjective quantum mechanics Of, pertaining to, or resembling a boson.

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boson +‎ -ic.

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Examples

  • The original string theory—called bosonic string theory—was certainly a concoction.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • The original string theory—called bosonic string theory—was certainly a concoction.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • The original string theory—called bosonic string theory—was certainly a concoction.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • The presence of the host lattice and its thermal and magnetic excitations that consist of phonons and magnons, respectively-known collectively as the 'bosonic' field-can affect the excitons considerably.

    Nano Tech Wire 2009

  • Now we might address this issue by considering our cosmology universe as a four dimensional spacetime embedded in a 26 dimensional bosonic spacetime or equivalently a 10 dimensional super-spacetime.

    Searching for Life in the Multiverse | Universe Today 2010

  • This can occur on the bosonic level as well, which is what we have here.

    Physicists Tie Beam of Light into Knots | Universe Today 2010

  • In spite of having painstakingly developed the standard model of real fermionic and bosonic matter, they were ready to accept the existence of a third kind of matter i.e. dark matter, in order to account for the unusual behavior of gravity, while all the time having known that they could not unite gravity into the standard particle model.

    What’s the (Dark) Matter? John 2008

  • The bosonic fields in the quantum-physical world are much simpler and of a definite nature which cannot be said for the interactive social systems and therefore such extensions can be spurious or specious.

    Random market versus efficient market Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • The bosonic fields in the quantum-physical world are much simpler and of a definite nature which cannot be said for the interactive social systems and therefore such extensions can be spurious or specious.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • If the field is just a way of computing the symmetry of the bosonic field, such as with photons, then there are no real fields which couple back on the electron.

    Does Space Expand? Sean 2008

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