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Originally Posted by alpal
I think that as a professor of physics his viewpoint was important.
How do we know that we aren't just combining building blocks to
create new particles?
It was more - an important question - than a statement of any fact.
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Still.. even if we are the ones who are combining them, the process and outcome is telling us about the rules the fundamental particles obey in their interactions. This way we can obtain more accurate models.