[dblack12705]

I just wanted to say that this is a really fantastic explanation of the current state of the art, particularly the way you state the high-level motivation for ultra high energy colliders. Of course, without a few orders of magnitude gain in acceleration gradient, the necessary collider size is impractically large, so these sorts of questions may not be investigated for a while.

[criddell]

But it doesn't answer the question for what is the mainstream theory for what reality is. I'm starting to think that maybe there isn't one.