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particle: a standalone construct

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particle1 CONSTRUCTElementary particleNEWTON · CORPUSCLE

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Physics

a discrete constituent of matter or energy treated as a localised body with properties like mass, charge, and spin.

A discrete constituent of matter or energy, treated as a localised body with definite properties such as mass, electric charge, and spin. Newton's 1704 Opticks pictured matter and light as built from minute, hard, movable bodies he called particles or corpuscles, giving physics its lasting image of matter as made of small discrete units. The modern elementary particle, a constituent with no known internal structure, was established when Thomson's 1897 Cathode rays identified the electron, and it is now organised by the Standard Model into quarks, leptons, and force carriers. The referent is a physical quantum of matter or energy, not a body dispersed in a fluid, a function word in a sentence, or a sample drawn in a computation.[1][2]

Unit
A single discrete quantum of matter or energy, classified by its mass, charge, and spin
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Detected in accelerators and particle detectors by the tracks, deposited energy, and decay products it leaves behind

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References

  1. Newton, I. (1704). Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford.
  2. Thomson, J. J. (1897). Cathode rays. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 44(269), 293–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786449708621070

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