Chapter 219: Major Development

"There are still plenty of interesting things, you should know that our world is composed of microscopic particles," Xue Quan found a chair to sit down, "currently, the smallest particle that can be discovered is a quark, but this 'smallest' is not a result of observation, rather, the phenomenon of confinement prevents us from dividing further. Have you heard of quark confinement?"

Chaoyang nodded, this knowledge was not common sense, but not too obscure either. In simple terms, if the quarks that make up a particle are seen as little balls, then the energy required to pull one of those balls out will instantly turn into two to three balls, filling in the original gap while combining to form new particles. The mutual transformation of energy and matter at this scale becomes almost a barrier, preventing quarks from existing individually.

Not being able to isolate individual quarks also means they cannot be further subdivided.