elementary particle
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Researchers believe it is composed of a still-undetected type of elementary particle.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2025
Panpsychism may remain a controversial theory in science that contends that consciousness extends to everything in the universe down to the smallest elementary particle, but Pollini’s playing has something to say about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Electric charge is conserved in nuclear and elementary particle reactions, even when elementary particles are produced or destroyed.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
One finding of modern physics is that every elementary particle on nature’s menu has an evil-twin antiparticle with equal and opposite charge.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2015
There is, we are told, an infinite hierarchy of universes, so that an elementary particle, such as an electron, in our universe would, if penetrated, reveal itself to be an entire closed universe.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
