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This primordial soup was composed of a plasma of particles called quarks and gluons that rapidly cooled, causing these two types of particles to fuse and create fundamental particles like protons and neutrons, which today sit at the heart of all atoms that make up the matter all around us.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Because the energy released in Hawking radiation doesn’t favor one type of particle over another, the final burst would include all 17 fundamental particles in the Standard Model, our benchmark model explaining the cosmos.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026
Physics students learn about the basic stuff of reality—space and time, energy and matter—and are told that all other scientific disciplines must reduce back down to the fundamental particles and laws that physics has generated.
—Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
Dark matter is probably a previously unstudied type of fundamental particle that is not part of the standard model of particle physics.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Because the energy released in Hawking radiation doesn’t favor one type of particle over another, the final burst would include all 17 fundamental particles in the Standard Model, our benchmark model explaining the cosmos.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026
Physics students learn about the basic stuff of reality—space and time, energy and matter—and are told that all other scientific disciplines must reduce back down to the fundamental particles and laws that physics has generated.
—Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
Dark matter is probably a previously unstudied type of fundamental particle that is not part of the standard model of particle physics.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Fundamental particle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fundamental%20particle. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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