A law of nature has been broken
In a laboratory on Long Island
In a quark-gluon plasma soup
For a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second.
When gold nuclei travelling at 99.999% of the speed of light smashed together,
Up quarks moved with magnetic field lines; down quarks traveled against.
A break in parity, symmetry.
Maybe this can tell us why we’re matter more than antimatter.
Why we matter.

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Because it isn’t fair,
This pigment, or this yellow.
Because, as we were saying:
We want to know who and what
And where and when and how.
All the way to the beginning.
Why at the heart of every large galaxy
There’s a massive black hole.