Seems if you think wind, water, soil, and fire are the only elements, and, therefore, the only things used in experiments, then the only conclusions are those must be the only elements.
We are using only particles and properties that we know. When we discover more, we’ll add more and get different results.
The LHC is colliding beams of LIGHT on each other to observe particles cast off in the collisions.
The fundamental understanding underlying this endeavor is that matter is condensed light.
The investigation is then to discover all the particles that make up matter and so understand how light created matter.
God is light.