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the chance to spot larger particles never before created in a human-made particle accelerator smaller, right?

• Confusion 11y ago
  They most likely meant heavier. Most of these particles do not have a size (like the size of a cloud or the sun is kind of arbitrary and ever shifting).
• KenoFischer 11y ago
  There isn't really a good notion of the size of an elementary particle. What's really being looked for is particles with certain higher (mass) energies. Now, why do we say that higher energies allow us to probe smaller scales? Well, at small scales(/short times), quantum mechanics allows these higher energy particles to play a role, even if there's not enough energy to create an actual particle. The smaller the scale, the more do high energy particles come into the picture. Thus cranking up the energy allows us to see these particles at a larger (detectable) scale than they would usually occur.