" And the riders were made of stone. And they were made of metal. And they were made of wood. And they were made of flesh and blood. And they were made of trillions and trillions of combinations of electrons and protons and neutrons, which were made of quarks and gluons, which were both particles and waves and either so elementary to be nothing but expressions in fields at the rock bottom of reality, or made of something so small and fundamental to be not yet understood by ‘great’ apes who learned to build rockets and launched themselves into the sun, which through the process of thermonuclear fusion combined the quarks and the electrons and the protons and the neutrons into all manner of matter and scattered it to the ends of the known universe via supernovas so spectacular and yet so unsurprising, an inevitable endpoint of following a set of equations that could be written on a single page. And they were made of stardust. And they were made of nothing at all. "

― Tom B. Night , Circadian Algorithms