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Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

Although the word "particle" can refer to various types of very small objects (e.g. protons, gas particles, or even household dust), "particle physics" usually investigates the irreducibly smallest detectable particles and the fundamental forces necessary to explain their behaviour.

By our current understanding, these elementary particles are excitations of the quantum fields that also govern their interactions.

The currently dominant theory explaining these fundamental particles and fields, along with their dynamics, is called the Standard Model.

Thus, modern particle physics generally investigates the Standard Model and its various possible extensions, e.g. to the newest "known" particle, the Higgs boson, or even to the oldest known force field, gravity.

Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).

It is about creating something new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them.

It is related to an interdiscipline or an interdisciplinary field, which is an organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions emerge.

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Culture can be defined in numerous ways.

In the words of anthropologist E.B. Tylor, it is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Alternatively, in a contemporary variant, "Culture is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses and material expressions, which, over time, express the continuities and discontinuities of social meaning of a life held in common.".

Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.

In mathematics, "symmetry" has a more precise definition, that an object is invariant to any of various transformations; including reflection, rotation or scaling.

Although these two meanings of "symmetry" can sometimes be told apart, they are related, so they are here discussed together.