In many ways, any attempts to formulate a philosophical method that provides the ultimate constituents of reality, a metaphysics, can be considered systematic philosophy.
Neither the word nor what it names is one of the ultimate indivisible constituents of the world.
Aristotle considered metaphysics the highest possible science because it deals with being, which is the ultimate constituent of everything.
The collider is designed to explore a new energy range in search of the ultimate constituents of matter, particularly a predicted entity known as the Higgs boson.
Now the various forms in passing into one another will each be resolved into its ultimate constituents.
Particulars, as relational particulars, are the ultimate constituents of reality.
And it has a noble purpose: to increase knowledge about the ultimate constituents of matter and the earliest moments in time.
One is string theory, the putative "theory of everything," which posits that the ultimate constituents of nature are tiny vibrating strings rather than points.
It is concerned with unraveling the ultimate constituents of matter and with elucidating the forces between them.
The superconducting supercollider - a $4 billion machine for exploring the ultimate constituents of matter - is another science spectacular.