[Boogieman]

Hmm, I looked it up too, and it’s not actually a “fundamental particle”, it’s a quasiparticle, like a soliton.

So it’s an emergent effect that can behave and be treated mathematically like a particle, but it’s just composed of the combined effects of waves from “real” particles.

[Reily]

I was thinking phonon, but I can see soliton also.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

like a soliton. Ok. Hands up, don’t shoot!

Just an old ME, not a young physicist . . .