Sentences with phrase «smallest building blocks of matter»

Just as physicists thought they had found the smallest building blocks of matter — the tiny quarks and leptons — signs have begun to emerge that there are smaller particles still (page 12).

Not exact matches

Quantum theory explains the behaviour of particles and energy at extremely small scales — smaller than atoms that were once considered the building block of all matter.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Nanophase Carbon Materials (carbon nanotubes, nanodiamond, nanocomposite]-- A form of matter in which small clusters of atoms form the building blocks of a larger structure.