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
For more than 60 years, measurements of the muon's magnetic behavior appeared to disagree with predictions made by the Standard Model, the framework scientists use to describe the universe's fundamental particles and forces.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
However, during particularly intense events, some particles can penetrate the atmosphere, where they have the potential to take out power grids or communication networks.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The particles appeared in a sequence where mass and spin increased in orderly steps.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
But it could not show the mechanism which causes light to reflect or refract, or the particles that cause smells.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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