The Methodological Limitations of Particle Colliders: Why Smashing Cannot Reveal Structure

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represents humanity's most ambitious particle physics experiment, costing over $10 billion. Its methodology is fundamentally "smash and examine debris." This paper argues that this methodology has inherent limitations: smashing cannot reveal intact structure, only fragments. Furthermore, the LHC operates entirely with positive energy and would be fundamentally blind to negative energy phenomena if they exist. The Higgs boson, existing for only 10^-22 seconds, may be a collision artifact rather than a pre-existing constituent.

Paper 6 of the Wormhole Gravity Hypothesis series.