THE WORLD IN TWO APPLE PIES AND A BEACH PHOTO
In physics (there's that "P" word that often causes young students to shudder), the unending search continues for the "fundamental building blocks" of everything that exists. At present, there are twelve such building blocks called quarks. In an "aha" moment, I experienced the world in two apple pies I handmade last night and a beach photo sitting not far from them. 
Quarks come in six "flavors," up, down, top, bottom, strange and charmed. These come in two forms referred to as matter and antimatter. When the two pies came out of the oven, their appearance and flavor struck me like a brick through a plate glass window: Both pies have an up/top and a down/bottom. They would smell and appear strange to someone who'd never experienced a homemade apple pie direct from the oven, and the crumble top rather than the usual heavy criss-cross crust top was completely charming. All in a pie.
The two pies looked almost but not exactly the same, which is where the beach photo came in. The photo was of a ghost crab's home carved in the sandy beach, the denizen having piled up his or her diggings next to its entrance — like the pies, similar, but different, and in the case of the crab's house, oddly opposite. Matter and antimatter! Voila! The world in an apple pie and a beach photo!
Interestingly, it was a property of quantum mechanics, call it "flavor entanglement" if you like, that was built upon in A. G. Hayes and my recently released thriller QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996325530. Ever read a thriller with a steaming cuppa and slice of warm, homemade apple pie?
