Astrophysicists are like an oversensitive grandma who hears an electric guitar and thinks nearly every music is metal
Do particle physicists give a shit about anything so large and complex as an element? Leave that derivative work to the chemists!
They sometimes use spare beam time to make new elements as a flex on the chemists.
Pah, if you want to flex on us, show us some reactions. Stuff that doesn't react and just decays is boring! (⌐■_■)
In seriousness, a lot of particle physics has to do with smashing shit together really really hard and then studying what comes out. If I am for instance trying to observe a k meson, the way I'd do that is to accelerate a bunch of gold nuclei up to 10 or 12 TeV (i dont remember how fast that is in m/s; some small fraction of the speed of light), smash those gold nuclei into eachother, then look at the spray of particles that comes out. The expected products of a collision like that are heavily dependent on what you started with before any smashing occurs, so particle physicists do tend to care pretty significantly about macro molecules like metal. Mostly because of their decay products, but the metal is important
10/10 would also smash
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