Atheists: Does the theory of super sub-atomic particles fall under physics, or metaphysics?

Your point is moot... irrelevant.

Taking a theory and studying it in effort to prove it right or wrong is the entire concept of science in general. Taking a story and not caring how deeply it is proven wrong quintessentially defines faith and religion.

Making the science=religion argument is old and trite. Frankly, it's beneath this community.

It falls under physics as a theory, and a lot of things don't exist until they have been proven. When you talk about science and physics - to the ignorant some aspects of science seem to be magic. Some of the things in your house would seem like magic to people in other parts of the world. About 40% of the human race has never made a phone call. Like religions, the supernatural and metaphysical phenomena are theories that come to be when humans can't explain something or prove that it exists.

Physics. Many of them can be indirectly proven. Plus there are a wide variety of physical applications that show how useful they can be.

ie, lasers, semiconductors, anything solid state, micromachining, etc.

Im not quit sure what you mean by "Theory of super sub-atomic particles" as a google search of that comes up with nothing...

How can it be supernatural or metaphysical if it exists within the boundaries of our nature? And what do you mean can't be shown naturally, did they call on superman to prove them?

Physics.

Uh, I'm an Atheist not a Scientist.

How in the flying feck does being an atheist make me in any way qualified to answer that question?!

while i am an atheist and I trust the mathematics of Hawking Penrose and their peers, I think it takes more faith to believe in quantum mechanics than virgin birth.

Of course i have seen evidence of the slit experiment.