I am going a wee bit insane so I need a little help... does anyone know where "they are discovering the nature of nature" comes from and if it has anything to do with a particle accelerator?

Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but it is mostly ceremonial work

Found this passage here:

A good example? Finnegan's Wake, a puzzle demoed at Gen Con (it's online now as well). The puzzle's first clue is a line of text: "They are discovering the nature of nature". Upon closer inspection, players see that certain letters are underlined, spelling out "tevatron". At this point, they can use a search engine to find out about the tevatron, or go elsewhere. Having seen that, they discover that the tevatron is a particle accelerator -- used to analyze subatomic particles like Quarks.
http://www.glideunderground.com/articles/gencon/Preview6.asp

"discovering the nature of nature" is a slogan used by, what appears to be a company called "femiLab".
http://users.mrc.tas.edu.au/intranet/links/all.php4http://www.stmaryscambridge.co.uk/links/phys.html
http://spiderwebb.hypermart.net/science/science.htm

FemiLab

"Give me a firm point to stand on, and I will move the earth" - Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) ----- "For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity" - Jean Dubuffet

Check out this impressive extract of an essay by Anne Whiston Spirn
http://www.doaks.org/Nature/natur012.pdf

As long as there is drivenness,
then we cannot experience our true nature.
Our true nature is effortless.
It is the nature of nature itself - an effortless spontaneous flow.
Whether we realize it or not, all of us, from infancy on,
start to acquire drivenness, compulsiveness, grabbiness,
and that covers over our true nature.
As long as that is covered over…life is going to be suffering.
On the other hand, we could just as well say that
Buddhism teaches that life is heaven on earth if we see what is really there.
~ Shinzen Young
http://www.spiritwalk.org/swquotes/serenity.htm

http://members.tripod.com/~stanz/clas2.htm
Classical studies are reduced to enclaves in vast institutions of higher learning in which the study of man's nature does not rank high in the concerns of man. This fragmentation, as well as the institutional reduction, however, are not sensed as a catastrophe, because the "climate of opinion" has changed in the two hundred years since [Friedrich August] Wolf's definition. The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its exploration opened and the loss of interest even turned to hatred when the nature of man proved to be resistant to the changes dreamed up by intellectuals who want to add the lordship of society and history to the mastery of nature.
http://members.tripod.com/~stanz/clas2.htm

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ~ Laurence Sterne 1760