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January-February 2016
Volume 104, Number 1
Page 10
DOI: 10.1511/2016.118.10
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All the matter and energy in the universe is based on the movement and interactions of elementary particles like quarks, leptons, and bosons. Working at the tiniest known level, they encompass the greatest scale imaginable. Here, we pull apart matter to show elementary particles at work.
By Eleanor Spicer Rice, Graphic by Neil McCoy, Acknowledgement to Tasos Papaioannou for Physics.
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