Just out of curiosity, where did you pull the "unrealistic expectations" from? I thought I made it pretty clear when I said "There is no scientific basis" that

Just out of curiosity, where did you pull the "unrealistic expectations" from? I thought I made it pretty clear when I said "There is no scientific basis" that I recognized the Higgs wasn't going to give those things. It is responses like this that lead people to believe that the community of scientists are very arrogant and to not want to have anything to do with them. Remember, those projects are funded "people like us" (whoever that is, but it is obviously not somebody as smart as you). When you make comments that denigrate "people like us", you are ultimately hurting the opportunities for future work. Given how immensely expensive it is to do experiments at this level, I would think that would be the last thing you'd want to do. EDIT: Decided not to lump the response below in with this response.