That’s what I said, making tremendous progress in the last 100 years doesn’t mean we will continue making progress at the same rate (though I hope it’ll be the

That’s what I said, making tremendous progress in the last 100 years doesn’t mean we will continue making progress at the same rate (though I hope it’ll be the case or that we actually accelerate our rate of disclvery). There are good ways to learn about fundamental physics apart from particle accelerators, but for investigating the structure of matter in a systematic and reproducible way there aren’t many alternatives as far as I know.