• Question: What made you want to understand the birth of the universe?

    Asked by neohybridvi to Ben on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Ben Still answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I have always wanted to know how everything around me works; when I was younger I used to take apart all of my toys to figure out how they worked. And as I studied more and more physics I wanted to understand what everything was made of too, but I had to stop at particles.

      They are the basics, the fundamental and indivisible. How they came to exist is the story of how everything we can see, and will ever see, is here. Every galaxy, not just the Milky Way in which we live. Every star, not just the Sun that we orbit. And every planet and thing on it, not just the Earth and all life on it. It is the most core question of how we came to exist. And it is always an exciting quest to search for its answer.

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