The Tiniest Particles In The Universe Don’t Tell You What The Universe Is

The Tiniest Particles In The Universe Don’t Tell You What The Universe Is

We are taught from a young age that matter is made of atoms, built from particles such as electrons, and electrons are not built from anything else. For this reason, these particles are sometimes said to be fundamental. But are they? Is the Universe really made from the smallest constituents? – Aeon The post The Tiniest Particles In The Universe Don’t Tell You What The Universe Is appeared first on ArtsJournal.

What Is The Universe Made Of?

Felix Flicker at Aeon Magazine: This remarkable fact raises a tantalising possibility: what if the elementary particles themselves are actually emergent? What if, underlying what we think of as reality, there is some set of atom-like things from which the proton, electron and so on emerge? A clear statement to this effect was made by Grigory Volovik in The Universe in a Helium Droplet (2003). To paraphrase his thesis: if we shrunk to the size of…