elementary particle
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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
Answering these questions is the work of elementary particle physics.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023
That result was the earliest indication that the proton is not an elementary particle: we now know that it is made of three building blocks called quarks.
From Scientific American • Feb. 8, 2022
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
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
