The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

Now, most of the atoms in the universe are the two simplest kinds: hydrogen, which has one proton, zero neutrons and one electron; and helium, which has two protons, two neutrons and two electrons. Of ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

Each hydrogen atom consists of one electron and one proton, and physicists have generally assumed that the positive electrical charge of the proton is exactly equal to the negative charge of the ...

The theory and these numbers imply that the one electron in existence has traveled through the universe 10 80 times, each time taking 460 septillion years.

The universe could be packed with dark matter haloes that have no galaxy fillings.

What Would Happen If You Lost One Electron From Every Atom In Your Body? You would die, of course, but you'd have a loooooot of company.

The conclusion was stunning, but he developed the “one-electron universe” postulate in 1940 to describe one electron bouncing forward and backward in time, changing directions.