Newton's third law of motion is well known. Anybody who has done high school physics knows that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You push against a wall; it pushes back against you. I think there is great poetry hidden in these truths, the many laws we've discovered that underpin the universal fabric. We search for meaning ever hungrier, perhaps even with desperation, because the symmetry in the equations belies the fact that, for all we know, there is just us on this lonely little blue marble in the inky void.

We want union with something, even if the opposite seems true. Bring two atomic nuclei together and their positive electrostatic forces will repel each other, but, with the patience and strength of the blind god of the galaxies, there comes a point where a greater entity takes over and welds them together.

Physicists call it simply the Strong Nuclear Force;

I've called this magic glue God.

- S.Halford