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by plainnoodles 1613 days ago
Aren't electrons about 3 orders of magnitude smaller than a sub-atomic particles like protons? And I can't find an estimate of the diameter of a neutrino easily from google (do we even have one?), but it seems like neutrinos are even smaller still. And I think we still have a lot to discover in this area.

So maybe it's more like, about 40-50 orders of magnitude, but potentially much more as we explore the "extremely tiny" portion of the scale?

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Quarks are supposed to be tiny. Why is the Top quark so gigantic?
As I understand it, it's believed that elementary particles (such as electron), don't have size.