The second point is that if you hit things at very high energies, you don't just get pieces, but you also make brand new particles that weren't there before! The theoretical framework to describe this process is called quantum field theory, and the field of physics that specializes in the looking at the creation and destruction of new particles is called high-energy physics. The hope is that by looking deeply enough inside matter--by pulling it apart and making new forms of it--we will better understand the machinery behind the universe we see every day.

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1. 1. jack.123 09:27 PM 11/30/09

   Huh,nothing inside an electron?What about E=mc^2.Doesn't your average electron has about 300,00 to 500,000 photons in side of it?How these are grouped together, and or how many photons are in each type of quark .These things will need to be answered, if T.O.E. is to ever be solved.What if Electromagnetic Force is the flow of Dark Energy,and Strong Force is the flow of Dark Mass,and Gravity is nothing more than the displacement of space-time by mass.

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