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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One of the best explanation i heard: Imagine a clock, you can see it from outside but you wonder how it works, so you want to open it, but you don’t have right screwdriver to do so. Whay can you do? easiest thing would be to just destroy the clock and see what will fall from inside, fortunately you have a lot of exactly same clock so you can do it multiple times and because each try gives you different damage you can slowly underatand how the clock is built inside.

The same principle works with partocke physic, easier way to uderstad them is to smash them open

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