Super sub atomics particles- their existence and the search for understanding
 
  We mentioned earlier, that contemporary science now accepts super sub-atomic particles exist. By super sub-atomic, we mean particles smaller in size than the components that normally go to build up an atom (e.g. protons, neutrons, electrons and positrons).  
  For the past thirty years, there have been whole "families" of super sub-atomic particles discovered with strange sounding names such as "Quarks", "Leptons" and "Neutrinos".  
  A range of theoretical particles have also been identified (such as the Higgs Boson and the Graviton), often for the purpose of attempting to better describe the behaviour of certain forces and general Universal phenomena.  
  Since their discovery, scientists have been working to find a way of providing a coherent "standard model" of the features and relationships between the sub-atomic world and the atomic world.  
6.2.1 Our understanding of super sub-atomic particles comes largely from the history of discovery  
  It is important to spend a little time for a moment and explain that the accumulated knowledge of the behaviour of sub-atomic and super sub-atomic particles comes largely from observation via experimentation and interpretation of theoretical behaviour.  
  In many ways, sub-atomic research and findings have not necessarily been integrated into our knowledge of atomic particles and compounds (chemistry).  
  We are at a similar point in time with that of the end of the 19th century when the Periodic Table emerged as a major step in linking the level of atoms with the level of molecules and compounds (chemistry).  
  Unfortunately, we have yet to see the completed linkages between sub-atomics and atomics fully realised (e.g., a completed the Standard Model). This is one of the objectives of this book- to clearly demonstrate the synergy between sub-atomics and atomics.  
     
 
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