The Fragment: The Primitive Stuff from Which Everything Originates

The English poet Jane Taylor wrote, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky."

For the adult, the poem invokes an instinctual question about the universe's very fabric. Yet, humanity's understanding of the universe shifted to the precise -from particles and waves to curved spacetime and hyper-dimensional string theories- giving us explanations hardly instinctual. Striking at the heart of this cosmic dance, the new propos...