Understanding Particle Physics Is an Essential Ingredient to Understanding Who We Are and Where We Came From

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When I first began this podcast, one of my stated aims was to try to resurrect sense and meaning from the dust of a billion factoids. And there's probably no topic where that's going to be more difficult than in physics. Understanding particle physics is an essential ingredient to understanding who we are and where we came from. But again, my point is simply to say that these are difficult books typically to get through.

There are some things you just have to know to keep up with the headlines. Things that, in some cases, provide crucial insights into who we are and how we and the universe we are part of work. It might be that a big picture concept of the fundamental building blocks of reality is one of those things. If you, like me, really want to understand something about physics, but find yourself thwarted at every turn by boring, overly-technical, confusing, and poorly organized presentations, allow The History of Being Human Podcast to throw its hat into the ring. What follows is my own boring, confusing presentation of some key ideas, presented as only a naive mind can. All I can say in my defense is that you really just have to know this. Or not.

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