Our current knowledge about the atomic pattern partly caused by a device called an particle accelerator or a atom shredder. These machines accelerate or speed up the filling particles "in the form of negatively charged electrons or positively charged protons, deuterons, or alpha particles" at high energy. Electrons are particles of negative electricity that surround the nucleus or atom's seed inside. Protons, deuterons, and alpha particles are positively charged all atomic nucleus. Proton is ordinary hydrogen nuclei; deuteron is heavy hydrogen nuclei; alpha particles are helium nuclei.