What are quantum particles?
What's the smallest thing in the universe? take your ex's mobile phone and break it in half, then in half again and keep carrying on where would you end up? Could you keep going forever? or would you find a set of individual building blocks out of which everything is made? Physicists have found that matter is made of fundamental particles, the smallest things in the universe. particles interact with each other according to a theory called the 'standard model'.The standard model is a remarkably elegant encapsulation of the strange quantum world of indivisible infinitely small particles. It also covers the forces that govern how particles move, interact and bind together to give shape to the world around us.So how does it work? Zooming in on the fragments of the mobile, we see molecules made of atoms bound up together. A molecule is the smallest unit of any chemical compound. An atom is the smallest unit of any element in the periodic table.But the...