Two small parts, an UP quark and a DOWN quark, were merged into a crystalline structure, through which an amazingly simple and harmonious tool of nature could be achieved ... the core of all things. The elegance, the structural simplicity of that crystalline structure, the atomic nucleus, can be admired in its ability to search for its most stable condition to give the universe the chance to spawn intelligent life. A new and innovative way to gain insight into this whole event has made it possible to obtain a better understanding of the underlying processes. At the same time, new insights emerged that pushed past assumptions into the background.