I will explain why. Imagine that you are a subatomic particle. Or that your computer, couch, living room, camera, pet dog, etc. is a subatomic particle. The way a physicist would study you is by sticking you in an unimagineably vast, empty and dark room. He would then commence firing cannon balls at you at about half the speed of light in the hopes that one hits you so he can track the explosion as your body is completely and totally pulverized. Then he would find several thousand more of you and keep blowing you up, in the hopes he would discover something about what you are made of or your structure. Or, instead of shooting a cannon ball at you, he could shoot you at a wall. Or you at another highly similar object. What I am trying to emphasize is that one of the primary ways we interact with subatomic particles is by destroying them utterly.
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