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Particles – Where did they come from?

What are the particles making up the stuff we see around us and where did they come from?

Following the completion of the largest particle collider at CERN in Switzerland, Simon Singh begins a two-part look into the history and latest understanding of some of the fundamental particles that make up our universe. Today, the electron and the quark.
Particle physics, explains Professor Frank Close, is a huge and fascinating endeavour to find out what things are made of and where it all came from and how it got put together to make the stuff we see around us.

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