Notio particularum subatomicarum expolita est cum experimenta monstararent lucem agere sicut fluxus particularum (photonum appellatarum) et proprietates quasi undas exhibere posse. Quod vicissim notionem dualitatis undarum particularumque genuit ad particulas accommodandas quae gradu quanti, sicut ambo particulae et undae, se gerunt; unde hae particulae undicula,[4]vocabulaundam et particulam in portmanteau coniungens, aliquando appellantur.
Alia notio, principium incertitudinis, dicit mensuram nonnullarum ex eorum proprietatibus una computatis, sicut eorum positionemomentoque eodem tempore, subtiliter fieri non posse.[5] Ut experimenta probant, dualitas undarum particularumque non solum photonis, sed particulis massivioris, adhibentur.[6]
Interactiones particularum in forma theoriae camporum quanticorum esse intelleguntur creatio et annihilatioquantiinteractionum fundamentalium congruentium. Quod physicam particularum cum theoria camporum quanticorum miscet.
Subtili particulae definitioni, etiam ab eruditis particularum physicis positae, sunt descriptiones variae. Inter professionales particulae definitiones sunt:
Particula est lapsus functionis undae.
Particula est excitatio quantorum campi.
Particula est irreducibilis gregis Poincaré repraesentatio.
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Feynman, R. P., et Steven Weinberg. 1987. Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press.
Greene, Brian. 1999. The Elegant Universe. Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-05858-1.
Halzen, F., et D. Martin. 1984. Quarks & Leptons. Novi Eboraci: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-81187-4.
Oerter, Robert. 2006. The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics. Plume.
Schumm, Bruce A. 2004. Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics. Baltimorae: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7971-X.
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Libri definitivi
Coughlan, G. D., J. E. Dodd, et B. M. Gripaios. 2006. The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists. Ed. tertia. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press.
Griffiths, David J. 1987. Introduction to Elementary Particles. Novi Eboraci: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-60386-3.
Humphrey, Marc, Paul V. Pancella, et Nora Berrah. 2015. Quantum physics. Novi Eboraci: Alpha, a member of Penguin Group. ISBN 9781615643172. ISBN 1615643176.
Pohl, Martin. 2021. Particles, fields, space-time: from Thomson's electron to Higgs' boson. Boca Raton Floridae: CRC Press. ISBN 9780367347239. ISBN 9780367353810.
Stwertka, Albert. 1985. Recent revolutions in physics: the subatomic world. Novi Eboraci: F. Watts. ISBN 0531100669.