• Question: what are particals made of?

    Asked by 11chrans to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Marcus Gallagher-Jones

      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Particles are made of…more particles it would seem. This really isn’t my area of expertise and I’m sure one of the other guys can give you a better answer than that.

    • Photo: Robert Thompson

      Robert Thompson answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      Its not really my area either, but I guess it depends what you mean by a particle, but as far as we are aware at the moment the smallest building blocks of matter you can get are Quarks and Leptons. Its quite in depth to understand what these are so perhaps best to have a look online.

    • Photo: Martin Zaltz Austwick

      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 23 Mar 2012:

      I think you get deep enough and the answer is something vague like “matter” or “energy”. I would understand “matter” to mean “things with mass, and sometimes charge” and “energy” to mean “everything else”! But that’s quite a simplistic view.

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