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Everyday life is a low energy affair, dominated by snail-speed interactions. A jetplane , although seemingly rapid in its motion across the skies is but a sloth compared to the slowest cosmic rays. Elementaryparticles live in a high - energy world interacting at unimaginable speeds. These entities are responsiblefor the most fundamental processes of nature and to understand them we need to examine the very concept of space and time from a new and counter-intuitive viewpoint. |