In the Ancient Greece era, the smallest particle known was the atom, referred to as atomos meaning "unable to be cut" or “indivisible”. In the last 100+ years, the science world has discovered ‘smaller’.
If you didn’t grow up in the science (physics, engineering) world, and you’re reflecting on the terminology of the smallest elementary particles in the…
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