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"One of the most interesting things about the modern chemistry and physics is that men have discovered that there are no things, there are no small particles. The physicist deliberately misleads society by using the words ‘solid state’ and things like that and by still using the word particle. . . he may say that of course, he doesn’t mean anything by it, but he just doesn’t know what else to call it… He is so busy with his work that no doesn’t want to bother with semantics so he calls it a particle. There is some kind of local preoccupation here and we just call it particle. We identify it as special local behavior. It is a special local behavior but it is pure principle, such as the wave concept. It has no weight whatsoever. . .
"So well then## get in to what we call the nucleus, the positive particles if you want to call them that. But it has since been discovered that every one of them has an anti-particle. All the negative particles have negative weight and so you have neutrons, positrons, and so on: you have positives, and negatives and neutrals. The sum total of ##m
