what do you think about components of the smallest particle ?could they exist alone?

Answer 1

ahopai, its tricky. if u say 'smallest particle', it means we don't know if it has components. so perhaps, its indivisible and has no components. i know, it may not make sense: classical sense. if its just the smallest particle known today and they split it tomm, i think they can exist alone (as i'm not aware of any fundamental limitation) but perhaps not for too long!

Answer 2

The smallest particle known is the quark. There are 18 different types of quarks

"Flavors"
red
green
blue

"sub" types
up
down
top
bottom
strange
charm

Answer 3

Here are my thoughts on this:

To separate an element from a compound into, it takes energy.

To separate an electron from an atom take more energy.

As you keep going stepwise to smaller and smaller particles, the amount of energy it would take to separate it from its parent particle increases, dramatically.

Using this logic, I think yes it is possible, but we just have not been able to generate enough of the correct type of energy or even calculate what that 'magic number' is.

Answer 4

The smallest known particle is the quark. No isolated quark has ever been observed. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen.