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Following the switch on at CERN in Geneva of the fastest particle collider ever built, Simon Singh uncovers the quest to understand some of the fundamental particles that make up the universe we live in.

He begins with the small charged particle we鈥檝e come to know as the electron, and the elusive quark which, thanks to inspiration by the writer James Joyce, rapidly caught on as a term for nearly all visible matter.