Talk:Electron Manipulation/@comment-24977986-20141124071218/@comment-5265497-20141124080428

Oh boy, this is where semantics and interpretation come into play regarding the complex jargon in theoretical physics. One interpretation is a perspective on the fractional quantum Hall effect when the collective behavior of electrons resulted in new particles. Then you would see that at the same time, these particles having fractional charge seem to be constituents of electrons. So, it seems as if electrons and the quasiparticles are actually the same thing, and there is no distinction between elementary and quasiparticles which would still make the electron and elementary particle.

And this plays into the reason of simplicity to satisfy the standard model in which leptons remain elementary particles meaning that they are more elementary in the sense that there is no accepted underlying theory from which they can be derived as an effective approximation.