= Quasiparticles vs elementary particles
As a phisicist once amazingly put it in a talk Ciro watched:
> It all depends on how much energy you have to probe nature with. Previously, we thought <protons> were <elementary particles>. But then we used more energy and found that they aren't.
If some <alien> race had even less energy, they might not know about <electrons> at all, and could think that <anyons> are actually elementary.
Being an "elementary particle" is always a possibly temporary label.
Bibliography:
* https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/21954/are-elementary-particles-actually-more-elementary-than-quasiparticles
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