Sentence examples for elementary stuff from inspiring English sources
Elementary stuff — if not always obvious.
Newton, for example, took that elementary stuff to consist of material particles.
And physicists at the end of the 19th century took that elementary stuff to consist of both material particles and electromagnetic fields.
But the laws have no bearing whatsoever on questions of where the elementary stuff came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular elementary stuff it does, as opposed to something else, or to nothing at all.
And what the fundamental laws of nature are about, and all the fundamental laws of nature are about, and all there is for the fundamental laws of nature to be about, insofar as physics has ever been able to imagine, is how that elementary stuff is arranged.
The fundamental laws of nature generally take the form of rules concerning which arrangements of that stuff are physically possible and which aren't, or rules connecting the arrangements of that elementary stuff at later times to its arrangement at earlier times, or something like that.
Every previous such theory counted material particles among the concrete, fundamental, eternally persisting elementary physical stuff of the world — and relativistic quantum field theories, interestingly and emphatically and unprecedentedly, do not.
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields.
Relativistic-quantum-field-theoretical vacuum states — no less than giraffes or refrigerators or solar systems — are particular arrangements of elementary physical stuff.
(The Thank God There's Silvio campaign, which Ariel Levy described in a piece in May, looks like elementary-school stuff compared to Putin's Army).
People talk about this stuff in elementary school, which is younger than I think it used to be.
