{"id":4010,"date":"2012-03-18T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:43:24","slug":"ask-us-how-many-subatomic-particles-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/ask-us-how-many-subatomic-particles-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"How many subatomic particles exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4012\" title=\"Higgs\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Higgs.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Higgs.gif 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Higgs-300x185.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simulation of Higgs decay in the CMS detector of the Large Hadron Collider. Credit: Copyright CERN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>There are two types of subatomic particles: elementary and composite particles.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are 36 confirmed fundamental particles, including anti-particles, according to Professor Craig Savage from the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/\" target=\"blank\">Australian National University<\/a>. Twelve of these are the force carrying particles- the photon, the weak force carriers W-, W+, Z0, and the eight gluons. This set also includes the anti-particles.<\/p>\n<p>The other 24 are called matter particles and only interact with each other indirectly via the force carriers. These include three types of neutrino, three types of electron-like particles, six types of quark and the 12 associated anti-particles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Add at least one more when and if the Higgs boson is confirmed,&#8221; Savage says. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what dark matter is, so there could be one or more new particles lurking there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Got a burning science question?<\/p>\n<p>Send us your questions to letters@scienceillustrated.com.au. If we publish the answer on our website or in the next issue of Science Illustrated you could win amazing prices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two types of subatomic particles: elementary and composite particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-us","category-physics","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}