{"id":319,"date":"2016-06-09T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2016-06-09T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:44:51","slug":"what-is-a-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/what-is-a-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a \u201cparticle\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/article\/what-is-a-particle?utm_source=main_feed_click&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=main_feed&amp;utm_content=click\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/particle_AKG_0.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excellent article on a question I&#8217;ve had for a long time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the broadest sense, \u2018particles\u2019 are physical things that we can count,\u201d says Greg Gbur, a <a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">science writer<\/a>\u00a0and physicist at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. You can\u2019t have half a quark or one-third of an electron. And all particles of a given type are precisely identical to each other: they don\u2019t come in various colors or have little license plates that distinguish them. Any two electrons will produce the same result in a detector, and that\u2019s what makes them fundamental: They don\u2019t come in a variety pack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/article\/what-is-a-particle\">What is a \u201cparticle\u201d?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent article on a question I&#8217;ve had for a long time. \u201cIn the broadest sense, \u2018particles\u2019 are physical things that we can count,\u201d says Greg Gbur, a science writer\u00a0and physicist at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. You can\u2019t have half a quark or one-third of an electron. And all particles of a given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}