How to Use fundamental particle in a Sentence

fundamental particle

noun
  • Thus enters the idea of neutrinos, fundamental particle with no charge at all.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
  • They are made of fundamental particles, like the proton, neutron and electron.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • If not, the result would spoil physicists’ standard model of fundamental particles and forces.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Was the proton a fundamental particle, with no smaller fragments within it?
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • How fundamental particles of matter acquire mass is still a puzzle to scientists.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
  • The Standard Model explains these fundamental particles and three of the four forces.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The fundamental particles that have so far been identified have been given esoteric names like quarks, leptons, muons and taus.
    — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Maybe those things will inform our understanding of fundamental particle physics.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The fundamental particles that have so far been identified have been given esoteric names like quarks, leptons, muons, and taus.
    — Dylan Loeb McClain, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • From quantum mechanics, physicists already knew that fundamental particles fell into one of two groups.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Science does deal with things that can’t be observed, such as fundamental particles, quantum wave functions, maybe even other universes.
    — Philip Goff, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In the very beginning, the universe was searing plasma, a soup of fundamental particles and energy.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The lab also found a third fundamental particle, the tau neutrino, in 2000.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • In fact, beta particles are electrons—the fundamental particles with a negative charge.
    — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • String theory replaces all the fundamental particles of nature with tiny, vibrating strings.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Gluons carry the strong nuclear force, which glues together fundamental particles called quarks to make protons and neutrons.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The model, with quarks at its heart, establishes the fundamental particles of the universe and the forces that govern their interactions.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
  • String theory argues that the fundamental particles that make up matter are themselves made of vibrating strings of energy.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Of all the fundamental particles that make up the standard model of particle physics, neutrinos remain the most enigmatic.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Crystals are a little like the fundamental particles of geology.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2025
  • When these two come into contact with each other in today’s universe, they are annihilated in a burst of light and more exotic fundamental particles.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Instead the primordial cosmic soup would have been a blazing mess of the fundamental particles called quarks, as well as gluons, which carry the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Take a nice, stable, regular fundamental particle, like an electron or an up or down quark—those particles represent the first generation.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
  • Millions of leadership books assert that bosses are a fundamental particle in the physics of capitalist enterprise.
    — Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Neutrinos, the least understood of the fundamental particles, are perhaps the last place to look for another charge-parity violation that could tip the scales.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The fluctuations then produced variations in the dense soup of fundamental particles that seeded the formation of the galaxies.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • The disappearance of free electrons meant that photons, the fundamental particles of light, were no longer endlessly bounced around and could actually travel long distances.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Protons and neutrons, meanwhile, aren’t fundamental particles, but are composite particles composed of quarks and gluons.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • About 80 times heavier than protons, W bosons are among the heaviest of nature’s fundamental particles, which can’t be broken down into smaller bits.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'fundamental particle.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: