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Maybe they thought she looked too soft for the job. That was fine. Their thoughts were their business. Some people call us a movement, they said, but that's the wrong word. We're something purer than that. We're an idea -- There was a big dustup in the scientific community, all over the world. There was an experiment that seemed to suggest neutrinos can travel faster than light. ... Neutrinos barely interact with most other matter; they're emitted by the sun, and the ones that hit the earth usually pass through it without striking so much as an atom. He said he felt like he was in that Steinbeck book, The Pearl.