So we can't use it as a weapon. ...No deployed weapon has ever used this technology. - Suzie Sheehy

The Standard Model tells us that all the matter that makes up our everyday existence is composed of just three particles. ...[T]wo types of s called "up" and "down" which forms our s and s. These... with the electrons make up atoms, held together by forces: electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

I suppose I was trying to figure out the meaning of my own existence. ...I went about it in a more indirect way: I set about trying to understand the entire Universe.

While a theoretical physicist's ideas must take into account the results of experiments, an experimental physicist has a more nuanced job. She is not simply testing out the ideas of theoretical physicists; she is asking her own questions and designing and physically building equipment she can use to test those ideas. ...[H]er practical knowledge ranges from to chemistry, from to .