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Is there matter in electrons

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Electrons have a measurable mass, so there has to be matter in them. The weird thing about electrons, though, is that they have no size; i.e., they are point particles. We can assign them a size, but we have to base it on the size of their interaction range since it's impossible to directly measure an electron's size. So how can something with no size be made of matter? That's precisely what all of the hullabaloo surrounding the experiment at CERN, where they're trying to find a particle called the Higgs boson, is all about. There should be results from that experiment soon.

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