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Goldstone boson comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has quantum behavior	has acceptance statu	has spin	has definition
boson	particle	Bose-Einstein statistics		integral	A particle, or pattern of string vibration, with a whole number amount of spin; typically a messenger particle.
hypothetical particle	particle		hypothetical
Goldstone boson	boson	Bose-Einstein statistics	hypothetical	0	A massless spin-0 particle which arises whenever a (continuous) global symmetry is spontaneously broken.

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