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Not really. Electrons are as far as we know not composed of smaller particles, and there's good reason to think they are elementary. Basically because smashing
by ajkjk 2y ago
Not really. Electrons are as far as we know not composed of smaller particles, and there's good reason to think they are elementary. Basically because smashing them with things reveals no smaller structure. Whereas when you smash things into a proton it is very clear that there are smaller localized objects inside it (there is a great blog post with pictures of what a proton looks like at different energies that I can't seem to find now...)