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Book 8

Book 8 in which Millie wants to give the particles a sleeping lesson Millie micro nano pico Book 8 is for all the children who asked Millie to find out more about the inhabitants of Bosonville and Fermioncity. Millie knows that photons are bosons and electrons are fermions. In this adventure, she d...…

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The Millie Micro Nano Pico series

Millie micro nano pico is a series of witty educational stories about the subatomic world that introduce a few basic concepts of quantum physics. The magic words "Millie micro nano pico" are used by Millie, the pussycat, to become small enough to play with elementary particles such as electrons, p...…

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What is an elementary particle?

Particles work more or less like matryoshka dolls, the wooden dolls that can be opened and contain smaller and smaller dolls inside. The smallest one is a whole piece, not openable like an elementary particle, also called a fundamental particle. In Book 8, Millie tries to break an electron,...…

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Elementary particles

Around 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus suggested that matter (= everything that has weight and takes up space) is made up of extremely small building blocks surrounded by empty space. These fundamental elements, which contained no smaller components withi...…

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What's an electron made of?

An electron is so tiny that we can't see it, even with the best microscopes. If you check out the article What is an elementary particle?, you'll learn that an electron isn’t made of smaller pieces — it’s one of the smallest building blocks of everything, called an elementary particle. In B...…