How though?
How is it playing God too study subatomic particles?
Seriously? Do you even understand what the purpose of the particle collider is and why they want to know what the building blocks of the universe are?
When we understood atoms and figured out how to put them together it revolutionized the world. We can now completely manipulate our surroundings. For example, a fan blade on a jet engine is lifting the weight of a small car on each of those wafer thin blades. In order to do that you need to make the entire blade a single crystal otherwise it would crack. That involves all kinds of amazing Chemistry, but in addition to that the temperature that the jet engine runs at is higher than the melting temperature of the metal in those fan blades. That is why many concluded jet engines were impossible and would never be made. You can bet when they actually did make a working jet engine they thought they were god.
Likewise that was the reaction of the scientists when they first made an atomic bomb.
We also thought that way when we made fertilizer and pesticide to double, triple and quadruple the agricultural production from a field.
Others have claimed that when you see technology you don't understand it looks like magic. Think of what people must have thought concerning radio or TV or radar or sonar or stealth fighters or satellite telecommunications or spaceships going to the moon.