elementary particle
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A Z boson is a neutral elementary particle associated with the weak force.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
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