Eli5 What is the purpose of particle acceleration?

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What is the purpose of particle acceleration and why do we need to accelerate particles instead of viewing them in their current “normal” state?

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Most of the particles that we want to study are very unstable, and so we just cannot find them in their normal state. However, if we smash two smaller and more abundant particles together at very high speed, the bigger unstable particles get created, and we can study them.

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