particles
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In its first moments, the universe was a seething soup of elementary particles and energetic photons that would destroy any atom before it could form.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
According to string theory, different vibrational modes generate different particles.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Solar wind is a stream of charged particles shot out from the Sun.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Starting from just a couple of assumptions about how particles scatter during collisions, they unexpectedly arrived at the core features of string theory.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Casimir realized that the forbidden particle waves would affect the zero-point energy of the vacuum, since particles are everywhere winking in and out of existence.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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