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The greatest intellects produced by our species have succeeded in piecing together a sketchy picture of how the simplest particles of matter interact. We now have a vague idea of what light is, how hydrogen atoms attract and repel one another, and how matter behaves. It has taken untold wealth and many centuries to achieve this view of the physical world at its least complex level. The study of matter and energy and their interaction is called physics. It is a testament to the intelligence of physicists that they are smart enough to study the simplest systems in our universe.
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© 1997 Peter D. Ward
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Ward, P.D. (1997). Wheel of Fortune. In: The Call of Distant Mammoths. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1946-0_5
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