The reason they have not been noticed by chipmakers, virologists and others who pay attention to things on the micron scale, he contends, is that, like dark matter, they are sensitive only to gravity, and relatively oblivious to the other three of nature's fundamental interactions: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

The first was that chance plays a fundamental role in the interactions of elementary particles, and therefore in the way the world works.

ECONOMIST: 100 years of Einstein

On a fundamental level, our use of the web has become too much about things and not enough about the interactions between them.

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