According to quantum mechanics, the physics theory that describes the zoo of subatomic particles, all matter can be described as both particles and waves. But is it real?
The W boson, one of the universe’s fundamental particles, may be heavier than scientists previously thought.
The subatomic particles may already solve two important puzzles of particle physics
These supremely stable particles could explain dark matter.
Physicists have now cooled beams of the subatomic particles
In physics, there are very different types of particles: Elementary particles are the fundamental building blocks of matter. Other particles, such as atoms, are bound states consisting of several smaller constituents. And then there are so-called “quasi-particles”—excitations in a system that consists of many particles, which in many ways behave just like a particle themselves.
