There's another path by which they can learn about accelerators and particle detectors essentially, how do we know any of this.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"Essentially,The Particle Adventure is an interactive tour of the world of quarks, neutrinos,antimatter, extra dimensions,dark matter, Higgs boson, as well as accelerators and particle detectors."

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

More powerful particle accelerators atom smashers, they used to call them have allowed physicists to learn ever more about the sub-atomic particles that are the basic building blocks of all matter.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05