The End of Physics?
The Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson. Hooray! Success for the big machine!
But not really.
The discovery of the Higgs means that an entire era of physics -- in which the so-called Standard Model of particles was theorized and then proven -- has come to an end. And the LHC is not creating any new mysteries to investigate. Physics is following the predictions too closely.
Source: The Atlantic. Read full article. (link)
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Yes, and people were predicting the End of War back in 1912, and there was that 1991 book "The End of History".
One thing that will never end is the tendency of people to only be able to see behind them and to fail to recognize what is around the corner.
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So can the taxpayers quit spending all that dough?