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Building blocks of the UNIVERSE

PARTICLE HYSICS 101

Astronomy is the science of very large objects: planets, stars, galaxies and the Universe as a whole. In contrast, particle physics deals with the smallest things we know: the elementary building blocks of matter, particles smaller than an atom. With such a difference in scale, the two disciplines may seem to have little in common. However, they turn out to be inextricably linked. In this new

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