As early homo sapiens smashed things to achieve something, as stones were smashed together to create sharp stone tools, and fire, so did modern man split atoms, and then protons in order to understand matter.
Fire often represents knowledge, first step towards modern man. Now we have attained knowledge and scientific method and we move on to smashing and splitting things in order to understand matter.
In an unimaginable future far from now, when we have understood matter, what it is and where it comes from, what will we smash then, to understand what?
