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Let’s get this straight: the woman I love is made up of no more than three generations elementary particles, right?
The up and down quarks (which form protons and neutrons), the electron and the electron neutrino.
Then charm and strange quarks, the muon and the muon neutrino.
And last—new experiments guarantee it: top and bottom quarks, and the tau and tau neutrino.
I’ve got it all down. It looks just like her. Beautiful and mysterious, simple as God, and totally unfathomable.