
Can you make matter out of pure electrons?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Complexity of Particle Physics
There's a whole bunch of electrons too, pushing on each electron and also other positively charged nuclei hanging out. Particle physics is based on this idea of like reduction. Let's strip everything down to the tiny basic rules that are going to reveal what everything does. That doesn't always give you an explanation for what happens at the bigger scale. We don't know how gravity works for tiny little quantum particles.
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