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msla on March 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper ...

> atoms are made of protons neutrons and electrons each which is made of 3 quantoms.

Electrons are currently thought to be indivisible, and protons and neutrons are made of three quarks each.

I've never heard of the word "quantom" before... where does it come from?

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