nemesis wrote:
> Define particle.  A proton was a particle (an atom in the original sense 
> of the word) but now is made of bosons, or fermions or quarks or 
> whatever is newer...

Quarks. But it's even funkier, because even tho a proton is made of parts, 
you can't break it into parts. The very act of pulling a proton into two 
independent pieces provides enough energy to create two entire protons. You 
can't see quarks by themselves.

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