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Marcus is a historian at the University of La Verne, La Verne, California, and one of Rudy’s three sons. In just one month in ...

What happened in the first moments of the universe—before the building blocks of life and the world we know today came into existence? Physicists at the CERN research facility in Switzerland are ...