When I studied physics and chemistry in school I was taught that atoms are composed of protons, nuetrons, and electrons, and that their interactions can explain chemistry and chemical interactions. Now I understand that this is either wildly oversimplified or wildly out of date. Would somebody be able to catch me up, simply, on what the smallest building blocks of out world are and how they interact to create matter?
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That’s still true as far as chemical interactions are concerned.
But atoms are made up of quarks and electrons.
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