The universe is a complex and intricate place. We can move easily through air and yet not through a wall. The sun transmutes one element to another, bathing our planet in warmth and light. Radio waves ...

For more than two decades, physicists have been proudly patting themselves on the back for discovering the quark, a subatomic particle they believe is the most fundamental building block of matter.

This paper makes a connection between the quantum group SLq(2), which described knots, and the elementary particles of the standard model. The elements of the fundamental (j = 1/2) representation of ...