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The human body, we feel that this is not a real reluctance to single object itself, but rather a collection of individuals and uncountable specialized cells, and almost every one of their own lives, cooperation, easy-to-understand way, bodily functions, namely, to maintain life . More in-depth, we found that the molecular composition of these elements atom. When we attempt to understand and codification of rules exist and, on this level, we have entered the realm of quantum mechanics, vibration metaphysical implications.           The Without and the Within     As inhabitants of an astonishingly fertile island in the otherwise inhospitable reaches of interstellar space, we have developed a common-sense view of our world that is shaped by the microcosm in which we live. The laws of this world are known to everyone: find shelter from the elements; develop a livelihood that will enable easy access to food, to a means of transportation, and to whatever creature comforts might be available; and conduct life in a way that will allow others to do the same. These are the sorts of things that we need to know to make do in our corner of the universe.   Over the last few centuries, though, we have invented tools that allow us to extend our senses into previously unimaginable realms, and as a result, we have been forced to reformulate our conception of the rules that govern the physical world. The deeper we look, the more we find that our refined descriptions diverge from our original intuitive notions of natural law, and the more parochial those original notions seem.   The human body, we find, is not really a single object unto itself but rather an uncountable collection of individual and specialized cells, each almost with a life of its own, cooperating in comprehensible ways to enable the bodily functions that sustain life. Looking more deeply, we find that cells are composed of molecules, and those molecules are composed of atoms. As we attempt to understand and codify the rules of existence at this level, we enter the realm of quantum mechanics, with its jarring metaphysical implications.   Probing yet more deeply into the nugget of the atomic nucleus or into the core of quantum-mechanical muck surrounding the electron, we enter the realm of particle physics. Particle physics is the study of the "within that lies within": of rules of order that take us into the world of the abstract mathematician, beyond the comparatively pedestrian realm of the quantum physics of atoms and molecules. Particles physicists attempt to understand the workings of the ultrasmall... [W]ithin this realm lie many of the clues that are necessary to unravel the mystery of the nature and origin of the universe.   …What [particle physics] tells us about the world in which we live is an accurate and faithful representation of physical reality. The theory works, and as exacting tests performed in the decade of the 1990s demonstrated, it works remarkably well. It is as much of an absolute as any paradigm of the workings of nature could ever be.             — Bruce A. Schumm, Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics                 Indexes/13