Sure it is the stuff of the best sci-fi adventures and if someone can make it work then more power to them. When the idea of the atom smasher was conceived it revolved around pretty much taking a tiny amount of stuff and hurling it at the "good ol' atomic brick wall" to see what bounced off when atoms smashed into it.

We can always wait to give credit to a new twist on an idea, especially if it works. With the universe the size that it is and full of filaments of density any spitting out that much "spaghetti" should take a very long time indeed on that scale.

Now we wait