What is the purpose of super collider installations?

Question

These are large underground oval shaped tunnels that contain micro particals which are proppelled at super high speeds.

Answer 1

To collide particles at super-high energies, thus testing theories of physics and verifying predictions of current theories.

Answer 2

your question is the answer

the purpose is to cause super collisions as you say "of micro particals at high speeds"

Physicists can learn a lot from these collisions. As we know from the success of atomic energy, the forces that hold atomic and sub-atomic particles together are very powerful. It takes something very powerful to knock them apart (a super collision).

In most things, to learn a lot about something you can't just look at it from the outside, you have to take it apart and see what makes it tick.

Answer 3

To study the VanDeGraff generator.

Answer 4

it's so nerds have a really cool way to butter their toast

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercollider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerator_physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Particle_accelerators