Robert Kirby comes from the farming land where the Appalachian Mountains cross from Vermont into Quebec.  He left the mountains where his ancestors had turned the black soil and made babies for two centuries. Always a student and scientist he modeled atoms, molecules and biopolymers in academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

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The logical next step in modeling nature was to model the fundamental particles known as quarks and leptons. Reaching into nature at this level reveals the source of the properties and interactions that rule our universe. A new grasp of the nature of matter has exposed a universe deeper and larger than you imagined.

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The subject of this site is the physics of our universe, and the chronology is the 21st Century.