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Are leptons composite particles?

>> No.2408967

sage

>> No.2408970

>>2408967

>Saging a thread about science on /sci/

Sure thing.

>> No.2408990

Pretty sure they're considered fundamental. But that's only until someone finds out "oh wait, sorry guys. There's stuff in this one, too."

>> No.2409072

>>2408955
They make up electrons if i'm not mistaken.

>> No.2409083

>>2409072
You are mistaken.

>> No.2409095

At current energy scales, they're fundamental. Might be more to come in the future though, that's what science is after all.

>They make up electrons if i'm not mistaken
Leptons is the generic term for electrons, mus and taus, the corresponding neutrinos and all of their antiparticles. An electron isn't made of leptons, it is a lepton.

>> No.2409097

Other than the photons around them that they're emitting and reabsorbing all the time, no, not as far as we know. There's probably some internal structure at very small scales, but nothing anyone knows about.

>> No.2409115

>>2409083
>>2409095
I've been wrong b4, thanks /sci/ducks

>> No.2409132

>>2409097
>string theorists aren't people and they don't know anything
If only string theorists would realise that they're full of crap.

>> No.2409148

>>2409082
Wat.