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I suppose I was trying to figure out the meaning of my own existence. ...I went about it in a more indirect way: I set about trying to understand the entire Universe.

— Suzie Sheehy The Matter of Everything (2023)

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I just taught you quantum field theory in about 2 seconds.

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The higher the frequency the smaller they get.

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Particle physics, I said, was the foundation of it all.

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