• Question: What is the universe made of ???

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      Asked by Bentheboy2015 to Andy, Chris, Harriet, Jess, Nikki on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by TheCheekyMeister, i love science.
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        andy chapman answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        For a chemist: Protons, neutrons and electrons.
        For a physicist: Quarks, muons, gluons, neutrinos, photons and bosons (the ‘sub atomic’ particles). Some even thing everything is made of even small stuff – ‘strings’ – have a look at string theory:

        http://www.superstringtheory.com/

        I can’t understand it though…

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        Christopher Blanford answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        Hamsters.

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        Harriet Reid answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        Wow big question, for me as a chemistry its what Andy said… protons, neutrons and electrons.

        As we look at smaller and smaller things they get stranger and stranger. I had to learn about quantum mechanics as part of my degree and it was very odd. So odd a really famous physicist called Niels Bohr said “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”

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        Nikki D'Arcy answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        Stardust?

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        Jessica Groppi answered on 15 Mar 2016:

        Hi!

        In universe there are matter, antimatter and forces that glue everything together. Probably there are a lot more things that I don’t know about.

        Jess.

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