When Particles Collide

  

    Within two seconds of the dawn of science, the first part collided with the first icle. 

   Physicists named it "particle." They saw that it was good, and said, "Let particles fill the earth and subdue it." 

   Then they built a particle accelerator in the land of Switzer, with a ring of superconducting magnets 17 miles around and around and...you know. It was in their hearts to collide particles against particles at nearly the speed of light, to see what would become of them.

   In 2012 they observed a particle that gives other particles their mass. Still, they were sore perplexed. What was the matter?  

   "How can we explain the nature of matter," physicists bemoan, "until we answer every question...no matter what?"  

   Then upon them came new light. "Come, let us build a larger machine, an electron-positron collider that is 62 miles in circumference...a collider that generates so much energy it might produce new kinds of particles for us to study." 

   And so they dispersed to the ends of the earth, searching for 23 billion in green matter - all to make matter matter more than it already matters. 

        Jimmy