The aim of physics is to understand how the Universe and everything in it behaves. One of the ways we try to do this is to ask questions, and as I studied more physics the question that seemed to lie at the core of it all was: “What is matter, and how does it interact to create everything around us—including ourselves?” I suppose I was trying to figure out the meaning of my own existence. Rather than study philosophy, I went about it in a more indirect way: I set about trying to understand the entire Universe.

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