I often describe the high energy physics approach to be akin to someone trying to determine how a car works by smashing two cars into each other at increasingly higher speeds and watching the trajectory of the bits that fly off.
________________________________ From: Roger B <[email protected]> If, as I suppose, and I could be wrong, all of the particles "shot" into the atom are traveling close to the speed of light, then could not there be some unknown characteristic at this speed,perhaps as yet unknown to us, that causes things inside the atom to behave differently than from how they would behave if the probing particle were going much slower.
