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There's a vile sickness in Abbas town.

You must excise it.

Dig into the deep earth and cut it out.

From IHeart podcasts and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky,

this is Havoc Town,

a new fiction podcast set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, starring Jewel State and Ray Wise.

Listen to Havoc Town on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

How does the universe work?

What are the rules that govern its most microscopic nature?

For a few hundred years, we've been making progress on this question, mostly by taking things apart.

And when we zoom into the universe at the smallest level, it seems so far like there are two

different categories of particles.

Matter particles like quarks and electrons and force particles like photons and gluons.

For a long time, it seems like that has to be all there is.

What else could there possibly be?

But experiments aren't the only way to reveal the secrets of the universe.

Another very fruitful path is to follow the math.

When we ask what else the math allows, we sometimes get predictions for very

weird phenomena like antimatter or black holes or Higgs bosons, which turn out to be real

in the universe. So can the math show us another kind of particle? A weird third way beyond

matter and forces? Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's extraordinary mathematical

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