How to Use fundamental particle in a Sentence

fundamental particle

noun

• The Standard Model explains these fundamental particles and three of the four forces.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
• Thus enters the idea of neutrinos, fundamental particle with no charge at all.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• If not, the result would spoil physicists’ standard model of fundamental particles and forces.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
• The model, with quarks at its heart, establishes the fundamental particles of the universe and the forces that govern their interactions.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2022
• The fundamental particles that have so far been identified have been given esoteric names like quarks, leptons, muons and taus.
  — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• The fundamental particles that have so far been identified have been given esoteric names like quarks, leptons, muons, and taus.
  — Dylan Loeb McClain, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Was the proton a fundamental particle, with no smaller fragments within it?
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The fluctuations then produced variations in the dense soup of fundamental particles that seeded the formation of the galaxies.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
• Scientists know the mass of every other fundamental particle, such as the electron, but the neutrino — at least a million times as light as the electron — is far more elusive because of its transformative ways.
  — Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
• Science does deal with things that can’t be observed, such as fundamental particles, quantum wave functions, maybe even other universes.
  — Philip Goff, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
• If borne out, the findings would be nothing short of revolutionary, introducing a new fundamental particle to the lexicon of physics that might even help explain the mystery of dark matter.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
• How fundamental particles of matter acquire mass is still a puzzle to scientists.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• In the subatomic realm, the Standard Model reigns as the current theory of fundamental particles and their interactions.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
• Under normal circumstances, the ultimate limit on information transfer—the bandwidth of the universe—is one bit per fundamental particle, moving no faster than the speed of light.
  — Rafi Letzter, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
• When these two come into contact with each other in today’s universe, they are annihilated in a burst of light and more exotic fundamental particles.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2020
• In fact, beta particles are electrons—the fundamental particles with a negative charge.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• From quantum mechanics, physicists already knew that fundamental particles fell into one of two groups.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• String theory replaces all the fundamental particles of nature with tiny, vibrating strings.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2017
• As the energy of accelerator beams rapidly increased in the final quarter of the past century, the zoo particles were shown to be built from just 17 fundamental particles predicted by the Standard Model.
  — Chandrashekhar Joshi, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• Maybe those things will inform our understanding of fundamental particle physics.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• Until its discovery, the Higgs was also the last missing piece of the vaunted Standard Model of particle physics, a unified description of all known fundamental particles and forces (except for gravity).
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2020
• Physicists know that for every fundamental particle in nature there is an antiparticle — an evil twin of identical mass but endowed with equal and opposite characteristics like charge and spin.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Around that time, physicists trying to devise theories that unified the forces of nature started toying with the idea that fundamental particles such as electrons are in reality composed of exceedingly tiny vibrating strings.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The laws of physics, as experts currently understand them, dictate the following: Every fundamental particle has an antimatter twin.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
• This theorized field also came with its associated fundamental particle, what’s now called the Higgs boson.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2019
• Theoretical physicists have explained through math the workings of the universe and even predicted the existence of previously unknown fundamental particles.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2012
• Just 1 year later, British theorist Peter Higgs fleshed out that idea in a bit of theory that ultimately has become particle theorists’ explanation of how all fundamental particles get their mass from interactions with the vacuum.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 Mar. 2020
• The overwhelmingly predominant scientific view right now is that dark matter consists of a fundamental particle or combination of particles.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2019
• Einstein arrived at general relativity through abstract thoughts about falling elevators and warped space and time, but the theory also follows directly from the mathematically consistent behavior of a fundamental particle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024