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I just saw you wrote phonon, not photon - I first misread that. It that case I replace my previous "from experiments" with "they are completely different by concept". Neutrinos are particles that can exist in vacuum. Phonons are a concept to describe the state of a crystal.

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Whereas the elementary particles that make up matter (i.e. leptons and quarks) are fermions, the elementary bosons are force carriers that function as the 'glue' holding matter together.

 

So what is the force mediated by phonons?

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Whereas the elementary particles that make up matter (i.e. leptons and quarks) are fermions, the elementary bosons are force carriers that function as the 'glue' holding matter together.

So what is the force mediated by phonons?

Phonons are not fundamental/elementary particles. They are not force carriers.

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