Experimental Particle Physics has been increasingly concerned with higher collision energies. This expensive research has ended up with a scarce production of a few unstable heavy particles (with lifetimes of the order of 10-10 second) but a multitude of evanescent resonances (with lifetimes of the order of 10-20 second or less). From these findings our official understanding of elementary particles has not much progressed after at least three decades. The orthodox nature of elementary particles is quite groundless and controversial, and resonances have been mainly limited to a zoological like inventory. Physicists should clarify ideas about this issue before going on with higher energy collisions aims, taking into account their high cost. Besides, realistic expectations based on harder collisions are quite faint. They likely will be restrained in still getting more and more resonances, in an eventually endless process that does not seem to be much fruitful. Hence, the strategy of keeping increasing the collision energy has become at present a doubtful scientific investment.
So, one may question where is the point of going further in the same direction. The moment may have come to reorient some researches. We think that part of the funds invested in the research on Hard Interactions (high energy collisions) should be guided towards research on Subtle Interactions (ultra low energy interactions).
In effect, if the useful concept of a referential null net energy ground state is introduced, then looking for particles or resonances of still higher energies represents to outdistance further from the referential ground, whatever its nature. With reference to this origin, particles are seen as excited states, being almost all unstable except a very few ones. Thus, instead of still increasing the detachment from the referential substrate towards Ultra High Energies (UHE), we suggest to reorient part of the scientific research efforts and to promote the interest for Ultra Low Energies (ULE). This will imply mastering the subtle interactions, being those in which the influence of the wave function starts to overcome the energy influence. In effect, all our present knowledge stands exclusively on diverse types of energy detection, including our so far known senses also based on diverse forms of energy perception.
For those who are already familiar with the concepts that we have developed, or/and with the physical concept of aether instead of the abstract one of space-time, let us express the proposed aims in the following terms. Said in a generic form, these aims lay in starting to focus towards the primordial matrix from which all particles have emerged, instead of keeping going backwards to it. Hence, reversely to keep going off the source by searching for still heavier particles through higher energy collisions, let us instead get nearer to it by searching for the lowest energy particle interactions. While getting closer of the zero net energy threshold we may even learn how to achieve the detection of aenergetical processes, i.e. the processes in which acts only the wave function, allowing us to visualize the primordial matrix. In future loads we will progressively get an insight into this standpoint.
In reference to technical aims they stand in getting the adequate tools, i.e. in designing detectors sensitive to Ultra Low Activation Energy (ULAE), down to an aenergetical activation through the sole wave function (1).
Let us finally mention that at "The Photon Laboratories" (Innbruck University) a much interesting research on a correlative subject has already been initiated, called by their authors "Interaction free measurement"(2).
(2) Those being also involved in similar research may get in touch and they will be mentioned too.
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* N.B.: I would appreciate information from Naturalists and Zoologists on instantaneous collective behaviors of gregarious species (preferentially insects, birds and fishes) to document and to deepen, with their participation, the analysis of the modes of communication through their perception and transmission of information.