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Now, where I'm gonna start asking questions is where we begin to use language like "shatter". Of course, I don't think you mean shatter in a literal sense, but you are suggesting that what's happening in a particle accelerator when these things collide is something like the break up of a particular structure to release that structure's parts.

But it also occurs to me that what could be occurring in these events is the creation of new, very short-lived matter. What if, instead of breaking a structure apart to release parts (a concept I think we let in the "back door" from chemistry), we're just producing something new? It seems like this new matter could be the sort of thing hydrogen molecules carry the potential to be like, but the energetic conditions throughout most of the known universe just aren't suitable for it to behave that way. We create a transient condition in the accelerator that makes this new type of matter possible, but the energy dissipates so quickly that the new matter quickly destabilizes.

I'm a guy who is more into philosophy than the practical sciences, so I consider possibilities and then look for reasons to think they're likelier to be true than not (or vice versa). I need people with more specialized knowledge in the applied aspect to balance out my retardation. At any rate, the question I asked above is the sort of thing that occurs to me.

What angle? But you know how radio waves work, right?

Yes, the way you spot lies is that there are never any supporting lies or fabricated histories for them.