elementary particle

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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

It is an attractive particle for scientists because the use of positrons has led to important insights and developments in the fields of elementary particle physics, atomic physics, materials science, astrophysics, and medicine.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

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

Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan