When you ask most students to name the elementary particles, most would assume you mean the proton, neutron and the electron. If you thought this, you would be wrong…on the first two counts at least, the last you would have gotten correct. Protons and neutrons aren’t elementary particles? Nope, they’re made up of something even [...]
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Intro. to Elementary Particles
Posted in Physics, Quantum Mechanics, tagged leptons, particles, quarks on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
