fundamental particle
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(physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter
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Now, because of all these considerations, Rutherford decided that a hydrogen nucleus was possibly a fundamental building block of all nuclei, and also possibly a new fundamental particle as well, since nothing was known from the nucleus that was lighter.
Protons were therefore a candidate to be a fundamental particle and a building block of nitrogen and all other heavier atomic nuclei.
The holographic principle thus implies that the subdivisions must stop at some level, and that the fundamental particle is a bit (1 or 0) of information.