What are electrons ultimately made up of?

Question

u would say quarks,leptons????
if n even if not so then explain what is the particles within electron whose name u mention is further made up of?

IS IT so that all subatomic particles like electrons ,protons and neutrons are energy packets,,if so can we say that MATTER AND ANTIMATTER are volatile forms of energy?

please give an explainatory and satisfying answer to all the above questions!!!-
plz answer fast!

sorry would like to correct that- ENERGY is a VOLATILE FORM OF matter and antimatter are volatile ?!!!

sorry would like to correct that- ENERGY is a VOLATILE FORM OF matter and antimatter ?!!!

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you want to get into this...

I'm not even sure if I want to answer...

But if you don't mind entertaining the theory that electrons (and ultimately everything, all sub-atomic particles, all matter) are made of superstrings.

You have heard of superstring theory, haven't you?

So far nothing's smaller than a superstring, but then, we should be open to what further study might reveal. But so far, superstrings are of dimensions of the order of Planck length, so with present understanding there cannot be anything smaller, therefore superstrings are the fundamental stuff.


Addendum: rijim2001 is definitely wrong: electrons are NOT made up of quarks. Protons and neutrons are made up of quarks, but electrons are not!

And goring saying that electrons and everything is made of light,... come on... unless you mean to say that everything is made up of energy, which really does not tell us much more than what we already know. We want to know what is the smallest, most fundamental particle.

Answer 2

Electrons are a type of lepton and considered irreducible.

People might think that electrons can just be turned into energy. I don't think that's true.

I think these electrons and leptons are everywhere its just that without the atomic force of a nucleus or nuclear fusion to sustain it the electron simply becomes meaningless and has no interaction with the universe. It can pass straight through an atom forever with hitting anything.

This is the basis of teleportation and similar theories which suggest this blank matter is ubiquitous- making teleportation etc possible by simply transferring the energy and hence identity of the atoms to blank matter in another location.

Even the mass of an object is a function of its energy. But without energy that object is still there.

Answer 3

Matter and energy are indeed interchangeable as Einstein found out. You might like to think of matter as being energy that has been tied into a knot. Sometimes when you make a tight knot it isn't going to come apart easily. The energy might be there, but nature isn't going to let you get it out easily so normal matter is hardly what I would call volatile.

Answer 4

An electron is one of the fundamental units of matter. It can not be broken down into further parts.

Protons and neutrons are made up of smaller particles, but not electrons.

ALL MATTER is energy, E=mc^2

Answer 5

Electrons are made up of light as anything else in the Universe. Light is the smallest micromass particle in the Universe.And because its the smallest, it travels the fastest.
Its very vely simple.

Answer 6

What they are made of depends on what branch of physics you ask.

If you ask a stringtheorist they would be made up of vibrating strings.

Now the string theory has progressed to M-theory. M-theory uses strings superstrings and membranes.

Answer 7

As far as science can tell, electrons are 'elementary particles,' meaning they are *not* made up of anything smaller.

Answer 8

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron

Answer 9

QUARKS!