elementary particle
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Writing this number in ordinary decimal notation, however, would require more elementary particles than are probably contained in the universe, even employing just one particle per digit.
From Scientific American
It includes six flavours of quark, their six antimatter counterparts and several other elementary particles, including electrons and photons.
From Scientific American
Most of the matter in the universe is dark, and despite searches for signatures of related elementary particles on the sky or in laboratory experiments, none were found so far.
From Scientific American
The Standard Model of physics presumes that we are all made of elementary particles with no additional constituents.
From Scientific American
Most people probably know that the universe is full of elementary particles—but not everyone knows that it is also full of extremely fast stars moving freely through space like barracuda through the ocean.
From Scientific American
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