The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...known that atoms can certainly be broken up into subatomic particles, and those particles can be broken into...  ...ot proto, meaning "first", since it was the first subatomic particle ever to be discovered. Shortly after...  ...an with a real name!) d...

German scientists hit electrons with light and then measured how they soon they moved. The delay between the bombardment and the movement of those electrons is the shortest interval of time ever measured, which is 20 at...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Ne...  ...se to the speed of light. The result is a glop of subatomic particles they call plasma. Particle physicists,...  ...rties you could measure is its temperature." The subatomic substance only exists for a tiny fraction of a se...