In the last post of Beth's Q&A ,we tried to understand four basic forces and their corresponding particle carriers, or bosons. With almost certain discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists completed the search for this last mystery of the standard model, and we now know how larger particles get their mass and how they interact with each other. Now is the time to bring this story up one level and write about chemical elements representing basic 'Lego' blocks of almost everything in the universe we currently comprehend. Hmm, everything but mysterious dark matter, which we still don't have a clue what it's made of. Every now and again in media (mostly internet), we can read about how we all are made out of stars and other violent events in the universe dating back in time even so far in the past to the Big Bang itself. Following some of these articles, Beth posted another idea for the thread, and I am paraphrasing her thoughts: "I keep reading we are mad...