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  • As far as we know, no. There are good reasons to believe that the known "fundamental particles" are the absolute smallest building blocks of nature; there is no finer structure than that, in other words. However, to be honest we have no way of proving this absolutely, because below a certain size scale, we simply don't have the instruments to probe, and probably never will have. One thing that you might find interesting is that some particles are treated as single points; they have no size at all, or zero size if you prefer. Electrons, for example, are thought to be such point particles. No experiment so far has been able to disprove this.

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