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

In the late 1960s and early 1970s it was realized that these phase transitions can be described by the same kind of quantum field theory that had already been developed to understand elementary particle physics.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

Electric charge is conserved in nuclear and elementary particle reactions, even when elementary particles are produced or destroyed.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 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