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the stuff you're talking about is what physicists call "low energy" particle physics. There is nothing wrong with that field but it's been around a while and it is not what CERN and other groups are doing.

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CERN is all about breaking stuff into smallest bits and find out what makes it up, before it returns to the foam. Its basically a particle car crash factory, who tries to learn how a car works by watching millions of crash tests for outliers. And in a way it works..

The problem is to deduct second order laws and rules behind the observed bits and screws flying. Car factories, assembly lines and cnc machines..

By use of horrible metaphors, we summone the oh might particle physicists into the cycle of cyclotron..

PS: Material science wouldnt know what it would get away with outside of try and error - without particle physics..

See, after the cars crash into each other, they create new cars, which go flying off. Some of these cars then turn into different cars. In some experiments, the cars create a sort of car soup, mimicking the time before the universe cooled enough to allow individual cars.

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