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Why do physicists believe that particles are pointlike?
String theory gives physicists reason to believe that particles are 1-dimensional strings because the theory has a purpose - unifying gravity with the gauge theories.
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Definition of elementary particle [duplicate]
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Why are atoms particles?
According to wikipedia an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle not known to have substructure.
Moreover, I've learned ...