Quantum mechanics attempts to explain the behavior subatomic particles at the nanoscopic level.
It is one of the most successful branches of physics and there are countless examples of scientific experiments confirming predictions made by the laws of quantum mechanics.
What is a particle? One of the particles you will be most familiar with will be the electron. The electron is an elementary particle, one of the fundamental constituents of the universe.
They are the particles that produce the strong force that holds the quarks together. Gluons are also behind a strong force which holds the protons and neutrons together within the nuclei of the atom.
Like gluons we can think of as creating the forces. There are four forces that we know of, the strong force, the electromagnetic force the weak force, and gravity.
Countless Higgs Bosons make up the Higgs field and it is the interaction with this field that gives other particles their mass. For example, the top quark is interacting with the Higgs field and this is what is giving the top quark it’s mass.
In the early 19th century it was theorized that at the sub-atomic level, energy can only be released and absorbed in discreet indivisible units called quanta.
