The Connection Between High Energies and Short Distances in Physics

Physicists come by their funny way of tallying contributions to the higs mass and cosmological constant. The calculation method reflects the strange, nesting doll structure of the natural world. What looks from far away like a galaxy is really a collection of stars. An atom further dissolves into hierarchical layers of sub atomic parts. As you somando shorter distant scales, you see heavier and more energetic elementary particles. It's a profound link between high energies and short dis aces that explains why a high energy particle glider acts like a microscope on the universe.