elementary particle

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It is an attractive particle for scientists because the use of positrons has led to important insights and developments in the fields of elementary particle physics, atomic physics, materials science, astrophysics, and medicine.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

Much of the production’s overall character came from the vibrancy of South Africa, and particularly the extraordinary dancer Dada Masilo, who mirrored Kentridge’s purpose, in part, by becoming the manifestation of a supercharged elementary particle.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Electric charge is conserved in nuclear and elementary particle reactions, even when elementary particles are produced or destroyed.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The year before last, before I got onto this quantum mechanics kick, I was writing papers about down-to-earth problems in elementary particle theory; I was also working on cosmology.

From Scientific American • May 14, 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