The mad CERN ’s way. In 1906, Rutherford studied internal structure of atoms, bombarding them with high energy a- particles. This idea helped him understand the structure of atom. But the clever Devil interfered and gave advice to physicists to enlarge the target. Bomb them! And physicist created huge cannon-accelerators of particles. And they began to bomb micro particles in ...

Hawking bets CERN will not find the God Particle http://www.physorg.com/news140161003.html ===============..

... and elementary particles to see what's inside of them (like you proposed in your "smashing a watch" example). We already know what is in a proton, for example. It's quarks by the way. What they try to do is create an environment where a collision between particles will occur, creating massive amounts of energy. That energy will CREATE new particles out of nothing, according to the E=mc^2 ...

What was before: “ big bang” or vacuum ? ============. The physicists created the “ Europe’s Large Hadron Colider “ Please, look how our physicists made this accelerator. Before they made vacuum and after they generate big reaction between two meeting particles, some small imitation of “ big bang”. They didn’t make this process vice versa. So, what was before in the Universe: “ big bang” ...