• Question: is the a thing smaller than an atom / the smallest object we know?

    Asked by anon-208466 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah on 15 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 15 Mar 2019:

      Yep, so atoms are made up of electrons, protons and neutrons. At the moment we don’t think there’s anything smaller than an electron, but we know that protons and neutrons are also made up of smaller particles called quarks. At the moment we think there’s nothing smaller than a quark, but maybe one day we’ll find something smaller!
      BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zsnssbk/revision/3

    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 15 Mar 2019:

      What Stuart said! 😉

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