All electrons in the body are not fundamental but are waves of the same underlying electron field, meaning all electrons are connected to each other as ripples of the same field, just as all ocean waves belong to the same underlying ocean.

Neutrinos are everywhere—since the speaker began talking, approximately 10^14 neutrinos have streamed through each person's body, roughly equal numbers from above (outer space) and below (through the earth), and they rarely interact with matter.

Calculations made to understand what quantum field would produce the observed cosmic microwave background match perfectly with the actual observations, representing another triumph of quantum field theory.

The question of what we are made of has been asked for at least 2,500 years, going back to the ancient Greeks, and has been discussed many times in this room over the past 200 years.

Physicists understand quantum fields very well when vacuum fluctuations are calm and tame, but understanding becomes much more difficult when fluctuations become wild and strong.

The first term in the Standard Model equation was written by Albert Einstein and describes gravity; solving just this tiny part of the equation allows predictions of apple-falling, planetary orbits, black hole collisions, and universal expansion.