Certainly the complexity of the experiments shows why theories are so complicated. The neutron wasn't even observed until 1930, with an experiment that fits on

Certainly the complexity of the experiments shows why theories are so complicated. The neutron wasn't even observed until 1930, with an experiment that fits on a tabletop. Even into the 1940s you could put together a cyclotron in a lab and discover a new particle. Or observations of the cosmic background radiation, which were made with a 6 meter radio dish in suburban New Jersey. Now most research requires a facility that only governments are willing to fund. If it were easy, it would have been discovered by now.