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Symmetry and Physics: how to explain to my grandma what I do.

 

15th of August. National holiday in Italy. All my family meets together to celebrate. Break between the first and the second course. Frozen ready meals - my standard menu when I'm away - seem like a distant memory. It's a beautiful day, the birds sing in the trees, the sun is bright in the sky, everything is perfect when it happens:

"But, what do you do exactly?"