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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
