"“It’s a great big universe and we’re all really puny, just a tiny little speck about the size of Mickey Rooney.”"
- Yacko, Animaniacs 

All matter in the universe is made up of subatomic particles called quarks, from your best friend’s eyelashes, to the rings of Saturn.  Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, so in a way, neither can we.

The copper ball floating above a rippling field represents a single quark, the infinitesimal building block of who you were, and what you will become.