<p>@catchtwentythree I read a myriad of topics, which has included a few books on theoretical physics. However, I am certainly not holed up in my room reading. I do any other things such as mountain biking, which I did today.</p>
<p>“All I said was if Einstein’s theory is disproved (which I believe it will be eventually) then we’ll have a different way of looking at the universe, won’t we?”
Sure, but you said more than that.</p>
<p>“On an unrelated note, have you heard that E=MC squared might soon become obsolete?”</p>
<p>My response is more specifically to your assertion that it would become obsolete. There are many applications of relativity that have been shown to work e.g. GPS, so even if we end having to rework this theory we will keep using its applications in the same way we continue using Newtonian mechanics, which are technically wrong, for many mechanical purposes.</p>
<p>"I’d say that calling a neutrino a subatomic particle isn’t too far off. "</p>
<p>Here is that thing from wikipedia:</p>
<p>In physics or chemistry, subatomic particles are the smaller particles composing nucleons and atoms. There are two types of subatomic particles: elementary particles, which are not made of other particles, and composite particles. Particle physics and nuclear physics study these particles and how they interact.[1]</p>
<p>The elementary particles of the Standard Model include:[2]</p>
<pre><code>Six “flavors” of quarks: up, down, bottom, top, strange, and charm
Six types of leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino
Thirteen gauge bosons (force carriers): the graviton of gravity, the photon of electromagnetism, the three W and Z bosons of the weak force, and the eight gluons of the strong force.
</code></pre>
<p>Composite subatomic particles (such as protons or atomic nuclei) are bound states of two or more elementary particles. For example, a proton is made of two up quarks and one down quark, while the atomic nucleus of helium-4 is composed of two protons and two neutrons. Composite particles include all hadrons, a group composed of baryons (e.g., protons and neutrons) and mesons (e.g., pions and kaons).</p>
<p>In the first paragraph it states that subatomic particles are either elementary particles or composite particles. However, and this is the important part, it does not imply that all elementary particles are subatomic particles.</p>
<p>Subatomic particles are the particles which constitute atoms. i.e. Protons and neutrons, which are composite particles, electrons, up quarks, down quark/s, and gluons, which are elementary particles. The gluons hold the quarks together.</p>
<p>Neutrinos are not a part of atoms and thus are not subatomic. It is somewhat of a nuance technicality.</p>
<p>Also, sorry about being condescending in the last post; condescension is a bad habit I have.</p>