What are the fundamentals in today's science?

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What are the fundamentals in today's science, is the Higgs field fundamental, in cosmology is the Metric fundamental?
 
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The fundamentals are the gauge fields of the standard model of particle physics, and the metric of General Relativity.
 

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So I know that electrons are fundamental, there's no 'material' that makes them up, it's like talking about a colour itself rather than a car or a flower. Now protons and neutrons and quarks and whatever other stuff is there fundamentally, I want someone to kind of teach me these, I have a lot of questions that books might not give the answer in the way I understand. Thanks
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