Ever have questions regarding life, nature, and just the universe and what it all means??

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QUANTUM UNIVERSE
The Revolution in 21st-Century Particle Physics
Executive Summary
What is the nature of the universe and what is it made of?
What are matter, energy, space and time?
How did we get here and where are we going?
Throughout human history, scientific theories and experiments of increasing power and sophistication
have addressed these basic questions about the universe. The resulting knowledge has led to
revolutionary insights into the nature of the world around us.
In the last 30 years, physicists have achieved a profound understanding of the fundamental particles and
the physical laws that govern matter, energy, space and time. Researchers have subjected this “Standard
Model” to countless experimental tests; and, again and again, its predictions have held true. The series of
experimental and theoretical breakthroughs that combined to produce the Standard Model can truly be
celebrated as one of the great scientific triumphs of the 20th century.
Now, in a development that some have compared to Copernicus’s recognition that the earth is not the
center of the solar system, startling new data have revealed that only five percent of the universe is made
of normal, visible matter described by the Standard Model. Ninety-five percent of the universe consists
of dark matter and dark energy whose fundamental nature is a mystery. The Standard Model’s orderly
and elegant view of the universe must be incorporated into a deeper theory that can explain the new
phenomena. The result will be a revolution in particle physics as dramatic as any that have come before.