So, what are we really made of?
Dig deep inside the atom and you'll find tiny particles
Held together by invisible forces
Everything is made up of tiny packets of energy
Born in cosmic furnaces
The atoms that we're made of have negatively charged electrons
Whirling around a big bulky nucleus
The Quantum Theory Offers a very different explanation of our world
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter Four forces of nature
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter Four forces of nature
That's a wonderful and significant story
Suppose that little things behaved very differently than anything big
Nothing's really as it seems It's so wonderfully different than anything big
The world is a dynamic mess Of jiggling things It's hard to believe
The quantum theory Is so strange and bizarre
Even Einstein couldn't get his head around it
In the quantum world The world of particles Nothing is certain It's a world of probabilities (refrain)
The Quantum Theory Offers a very different explanation of our world
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter Four forces of nature
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter Four forces of nature
That's a wonderful and significant story
It's very hard to imagine
All the crazy things
That things really are like
Electrons act like waves No they don't exactly
They act like particles No they don't exactly
We need a theory of everything
Which is still just beyond our grasp
We need a theory of everything, perhaps
The ultimate triumph of science (refrain)
The Quantum Theory Offers a very different explanation of our world
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter Four forces of nature
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter Four forces of nature
That's a wonderful and significant story
I gotta stop somewhere I'll leave you something to imagine