fundamental particle

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fundamental
adjective
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/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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particle
noun
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/ˈpɑː.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpɑːr.t̬ə.kəl/
a word or a part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or ...
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Prior to that model becoming a consensus in the physics community, the proton was considered afundamentalparticle.
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The suite contained codes relevant to astrophysics, fluid dynamics, climate modelling, biosciences, materials science, fusion power andfundamentalparticlephysics.
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Electron became the first elementary, trulyfundamentalparticlediscovered.
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Which is thefundamentalparticle?
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The holographic principle thus implies that the subdivisions must stop at some level, and that thefundamentalparticleis a bit (1 or 0) of information.
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The stars and the fundamental particles will still be with us, little changed, thousands of years hence, but most of the biological species will not.
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In modern physics, all fundamental particles are regarded as localized excitations of fields.
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Are there fundamental particles that have not yet been observed and if so which ones are they and what are their properties?
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Furthermore, cosmological experiments also suggest the existence of dark matter, supposedly composed of fundamental particles outside the scheme of the standard model.
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In this theory, the fundamental particles or primons have energies log "p".
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These baryons are further composed of subatomic fundamental particles known as quarks bound by the strong interaction.
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The strangeness of heavy particles and the -lepton were first two signs of what is now known as the second generation of fundamental particles.
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The properties of the fundamental particles are similar to those of gunas.
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In quantum field theory one usually uses a mathematical description which includes unphysical fundamental particles, such as longitudinal photons.
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He undertook experiments with cosmic rays to explore the properties of fundamental particles.
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More recently, his work has focused on applications of the octonions to the theory of fundamental particles.
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His research emphasizes the importance of experiment in testing theoretical ideas, and in driving theoretical developments aimed at understanding interactions among fundamental particles.
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It was later discovered that protons and neutrons were not fundamental particles, but were made up of constituent particles called quarks.
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