![]() The particle accelerators that achieved these feats earned the nickname atom smashers. But soon physicists were creating their own new particles by hurling high-energy streams of electrons and protons crashing into waiting targets. At first the particles were discovered in nature, the result of cosmic rays crashing to earth from outer space. Properties like electric charge didn't add up. Some were smaller than protons and neutrons but larger than electrons. ![]() The problem was that physicists kept discovering more and more particles. It seemed only fitting that these particles should be the end of the story. Together, they formed the day-to-day world we interacted with. The basic components of the atom were well established - the proton, neutron, and electron. ![]() The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.īy the early 1960s particle physics was in a bit of a mess. ![]()
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