• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Think of particles as bundles of conserved quantities like charge, energy, mass, etc.

    In interactions, these quantities can be shuffled around and re-bundled into different particles—but the re-bundling isn’t creating or destroying the conserved quantities themselves.