the smallest non-living thing?

Answer 1

For many years it was thought that the smallest building blocks were atoms, but now we know that it not true. Scientists have now found even smaller building blocks than atoms. They have a funny name - quarks. There are many "flavors" of quarks. Their names are - up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange.

Answer 2

The rules of physics, time and space change with SIZE. There was an article in the magazine Scientific American one summer in the late 90's regarding this. They put the grey area (note NOT the "line") on the electron. Particles this size and smaller have intrinsic spin, larger ones do not. How does this relate to your question? If you spin an electron 360 degrees, it will be exactly as before except it will have the opposite intrinsic spin that it had before. You have to rotate it another 360 degrees in either direction to get the I S back to where it was. The point of the article was that this IS four dimensionality of electrons. They straddle the boarder of this grey area, sometimes a particle, sometimes a wave, base mainly on the conciousness observing it but let's not go there right now... The whole point is that there is a whole dimension of smaller particles than electrons, quarks, or anything else. We just slap the general label of "energy" on these particles. If you study the connections between buddhism and quantum theory, you soon see the parrallel between these higher dimensional spaces in our universe and higher planer of reality, which are not in other places, but right here and we just don't usually percieve them (we're blind.) Theosophical books are pretty good at breaking things down from this point of view. (Man, Visible and Visible and The Astral Plane by CW Leadbeater are good intros but some people may not be ready for them.) There is no definite gap between the "physical" universe and these higher dimensional spaces. Only grey areas where the different dimensions overlap. This kind almost makes the question moot, becuase it implies a series of whole planes of reality where the "particles" of the universe get smaller and smaller and stuff like quarks are just the first snowflake on the tip of the ice burg. Or mabey I'm wrong and you can just go with the quark thing. Have a nice day.

Answer 3

Quarks are made of superstrings. So, the smallest non-living thing is either a superstring, or the brains of deadheads who think the smallest non-living thing is a quark.

Answer 4

Quark

Answer 5

Hi. The quark (as far as we now think).

Answer 6

a media-pre-sub-quark.

Answer 7

sub-quark

Answer 8

a string

Answer 9

your brain