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Comment by p_noumenon

It's still called a particle because that's a useful abstraction, and also keep in mind that correctly identifying it as resonance happened much later than people first started to use said abstraction.

In reality, we know by now that there's no such thing as a particle:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3930

parent p_noumenon 4 years ago

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