kingnat.. good reply.. it sounds like you have a good understanding of the theories and I enjoyed reading your response.

A lot of study is done of these particles in accelerators where they ramp particles (protons, electrons, etc.) up to 0.999...c and crack a couple together.. and the energy of the collision creates tons of new particles.
correct, and this fascinates me. I took a physics class last year where the professor explained this process in detail and gave many, many examples of such. It was one class where I can actually say I enjoyed.

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i was always under the impression that they didnt work together, and that this was one of the big mysteries that all physicists were working on, a grand unified theory of everything.
correct. I guess I should have made the disclaimer that the person would have kept the $100 if I got to keep the nobel prize.....