why do they call the atom the smallest particle known to man? what about the parts that make up an atom?

Question

i already know they found a smaller particle called a Bolson.

but i just wondered why if an atom is made up of nuetrons, protons, electrons, then why wouldnt they call a proton the smallest particle?

Answer 1

It used to be thought that atoms were the smallest constituents of matter. They still are the smallest that exhibit chemical properties.



But there are subatomic particles, electrons, protons, and neutrons, and sub-those are the quarks and leptons and various types of boson. If you want to find out a bit more about these, check out the Wikipedia article on the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

Answer 2

Atoms are the smallest objects that retain the chemical properties of that representative object. A single atom of Hydrogen possesses the same chemical properties of 10,000 kilograms of Hydrogen. However, if you break that hydrogen atom apart into a proton and an electron, then those properties disappear.



There's a key difference in what you're saying and what "they" are saying.

Answer 3

Quarks are smaller and less massive than protons. Those who think atoms are smallest, learned it from someone who was more than a century behind new science knowledge.

Answer 4

Who are "they?"



They don t know what they re talking about.



Sounds like something a religious apologist would use to build up one of their nonsensical arguments.

Answer 5

They don't. And that is Bosons & Neutrons.

Answer 6

Quarks are even smaller.