In elementary particle ("high-energy") physics, the way to understand something is to take huge tracts of land many square miles in area, and build vast "accelerators" on them designed to get elementary particles to go as FAST!!! as humanly possible, and then SMASH THE LIVING FUCK!!! OUT OF THEM, preferably against similar particles, going at similar maximum speeds in the complete opposite direction.

Thus, in order to understand how television works, for example, simply load up a couplea big old rickety flatbed trucks with lots of tv sets of all sizes and ages and then get them going at about 110 or 120 mph, by starting them on the same road but at the top of opposing hills on opposite sides of a deep valley, and letting them go so both reach the nadir at roughly the same moment, while going, by the laws of physics, at top speed.

Of course, in this example (which is used because it is easy to understand by almost anybody and because it is easily extrapolated to the endeavors of politics, sociology, history and the general study of current affairs and culture in general), the deep understandng gained from studying the results of this collision is somewhat muddied by all the random pieces of truck engine and tire tread.

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