User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-4947746-20120529225314/@comment-4947746-20120603222428

"Mister Feck, if you're discussing what's ... particle accelerator does or is capable of."

Simply the fact that the reapers destroyed it "seeing it as a greater threat than the nearby asari fleet.

The only reasons they would do that are if the writers thought a particle accelerator could be weaponised, which simply cannot happen, or if it was capable of magically creating a war winning McGuffin, which also cannot happen, both because of the mechanics of a parcticle accelerator (colliding objects in order to create exotic particles) which cannot be used to do anything more than prove/disprove already hypothesised concepts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator

You two should look things up before taking offense at people stating fact.

Also traditional, the derelict reaper was hit by a giant mass accelerator cannon, not a supercollider (which is just a commonly used word to describe a high energy particle accelerator, but doesnt actually mean anything itself)