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https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/...over-time/
KEY POINTS: In our physical reality, the idea of something being “fundamental” is that it’s indivisible and not made up of smaller or more elementary entities: a concept that’s thousands of years old. We didn’t arrive at our first candidates for what “elementary” truly is until the discovery of the atom, and it was only decades later that subatomic particles were discovered as well. Today, we know of many different species of fundamental particles, but they still don’t explain everything that must exist in the Universe. Here’s how far we’ve come, with plenty of work still ahead of us... (MORE - details)
KEY POINTS: In our physical reality, the idea of something being “fundamental” is that it’s indivisible and not made up of smaller or more elementary entities: a concept that’s thousands of years old. We didn’t arrive at our first candidates for what “elementary” truly is until the discovery of the atom, and it was only decades later that subatomic particles were discovered as well. Today, we know of many different species of fundamental particles, but they still don’t explain everything that must exist in the Universe. Here’s how far we’ve come, with plenty of work still ahead of us... (MORE - details)
