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[–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

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