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It’s family games night, and we’re playing a guessing game. My mother—not a physicist—picks up a card and says, ‘A fundamental particle.’
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Adlam, E. (2019). Fundamental?. In: Aguirre, A., Foster, B., Merali, Z. (eds) What is Fundamental?. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11301-8_2
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