What is a Boson?

In quantum mechanics, a boson is a particle that follows Bose–Einstein statistics. Bosons make up one of the two classes of particles, the other being fermions. The name boson was coined by Paul Dirac to commemorate the contribution of the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose in developing, with Einstein, Bose–Einstein statistics—which theorizes the characteristics of elementary particles.

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[labonephysics]

Brilliant. That explains absolutely everything you could ever possibly want to know about bosons. In fact, if you turn up to any university and recite these 24 seconds, they will instantly bestow a PhD upon you.

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

I think that people's attention spans might actually be longer than 24 seconds.

[dinutdavid]

Please explain things in such a way that even a high school student gets it. Please physicists and scientists take this advice. This is the reason why we have a lot of science (especially physics) haters out here.

[rishusarkar]

Plz sir can you explain it more I am actually 14 soo ....

[anteconfig]

that's great! but what exactly does that mean for these particles? Does that mean they are force carriers or does that mean that two bosons can be in the same place at the same time?