Talk:Quantum Mechanics/Quarks and Leptons

Jarod (April 19, 2009)
The first sentence is propagating the historic/lingering misconception that only the fermion-based matter (quarks and leptons) is "all the matter", implying that other types of matter are not matter at all. The excluded types of matter are:
 * mediating bosons like photons, gravitons, gluons, wikons
 * other standard model ingredients: Higgs scalars, axions, etc.
 * supersymmetric partners
 * matter called not "the dark matter"
 * matter called now evanescence (incorrectly: "the dark energy")

The misconception originated from the beginning of 20th century conceptual split between the "matter" (i.e. the corpuscular substance) and "energy" (i.e. the massless wavelike fields) and it is now still being seen in the many introductory level textbooks and texts on the modern physics.

For modern physicist the matter is any type of substance: if it has any assembly of properties (e.g. mass, momentum, energy, various charges, etc) that are otherwise used to quantify/measure the fermion-based substance, it is also the substance/matter.