We've run out of the ability to measure easily. As you indicated, the "human scale" things that we can experiment with to make predictions have been "plucked."

We've run out of the ability to measure easily. As you indicated, the "human scale" things that we can experiment with to make predictions have been "plucked." Now we have to make increasingly more complex tools (LHC etc...) for physical things we can't experience directly and our ethics prevents us from experimenting with those "soft" things.