Why search for the top quark with higher collision energies

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Having discovered up, down, strange, charm and bottom quarks, why did scientists undertake similar experiments using higher and higher energies?
 

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They were still looking for the top quark.
 


And experimentalists have repeatedly turned up "unexpected" findings that surprise, confound and set new directions...
 

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