subatomic particle
English
[edit]Noun
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subatomic particle (plural subatomic particles)
- (particle physics) Any of many units of matter smaller than an atom.
- 2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 12 October 2023:
- We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.
Translations
[edit]unit of matter smaller than an atom
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