21 September 1999 - particle dating

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 21 September 1999

Romance for Subatomic Particles

fermion - I’m not even allowed in the same state as anybody who’s like me. I can’t pair up unless I’m really cool, and then I’m cooped.

boson - Hey, anybody wanna be the boson’s mate?

clue:

I have found a marvellous explanation of this joke about the Pauli Exclusion Principle, but the margin is too small to contain it.