How Pythagoras’ ideas predicted the existence of subatomic particles 2,500 years ago. And how Christianity has bridged the gap between ancient Greece and the particle accelerator. In a recent posting of my conversation with Brandon Vaidyanathan on Science, Art and the Sacred, I described the process of the discovery of a quark by Murrey Gell-Mann in the early 1960s, and how the creative process
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