As-salamulalikum
As far as I know, Quran does not talk about sub-atomic particles explicity.
What Sir Stephen Hawking is speculating is like dooms day prediction. All this is based on Bigbang theory(it is neither proved or disproved). http://science.howstuffworks.com/higgs-boson.htm
wa alaikomassalam warahmatollah
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