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and now for some final thoughts on
subatomic particles we learned early in
school that there's such a thing as
atoms and that all of matter is composed
of them a little later we learned that
atoms a word by the way from the Greek
atomos meeting indivisible are
themselves composed of even smaller
particles the familiar electrons protons
and neutrons under exotic conditions of
high energy like what's common at CERN
and in other accelerators particles
wholly unfamiliar to everyday life pop
into existence but what may be
unfamiliar to us is common to the cosmos
want to find the biggest accelerators of
them all they're out there in the
universe the million degree cores of
stars the turbulent environments of
massive black holes dining on gas clouds
that wander too close or the
stupendously hot conditions during the
Big Bang so while physicist probe ever
higher energies to understand the
fundamental building blocks of matter
those same experiments serve as a probe
of what's going on across space and time
there lies one of the most remarkable
stories of modern science how the study
of the smallest constituents of matter
offers deep insight to the biggest event
that ever was the birth of the universe
itself and that is the cosmic
perspective
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