> If you think there's nothing else to be found in physics, sure, we can stop. But plenty of people in the ancient world thought there was nothing left, too. T

> If you think there's nothing else to be found in physics, sure, we can stop. But plenty of people in the ancient world thought there was nothing left, too. To the contrary, I think there's an infinite amount of things to be found out, across all sciences. However, for all I can tell, CERN is out to prove hypotheses for which no one today can conceive of any use whatsoever. By contrast, there are many relatively low-hanging fruits in science and engineering that aren't long shots at all. I'm not gonna say the billion-dollar budget of CERN should be re-appropriated, but it does seem overblown. In any event, I'm not at all worried about CERN shutting down because helium gets to expensive.