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

Much of the production’s overall character came from the vibrancy of South Africa, and particularly the extraordinary dancer Dada Masilo, who mirrored Kentridge’s purpose, in part, by becoming the manifestation of a supercharged elementary particle.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2017

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