Meet Dr. Valentina Cruz — The Woman Who Made Particle Physics Go Viral
Nobody expected a lecture on quantum chromodynamics to crash a university server, but here we are. Dr. Valentina Cruz, a 31-year-old particle physicist at a mid-sized state university, posted what she called a ‘casual explainer’ on subatomic collisions — and within 48 hours the video had 14 million views. The comments section? Mostly men claiming they ‘suddenly really care about quarks.’
