Science is hard, and you can usually make an exciting announcement about big discoveries. In physics we did not have any major discovery since the early XX cent

Science is hard, and you can usually make an exciting announcement about big discoveries. In physics we did not have any major discovery since the early XX century. By major discoveries, I mean ones I cant talk with my mom (a humanist and a lawyer) and make it exciting. Balls that could go though a wall? that's exciting. You travel fast and you age relatively less than someone who does not? Oh yeah. Higgs boson? Boring Something something black hole at 3 MM light years? what's a light year? OTOH you have areas such as biology where the announcements are revolutionary (about 3 extraordinary findings against cancer avery week) but there is a lot of money behind so the details are sparse. On my PhD thesis, the introduction was 5 lines long, stating that if you need an introduction you should probably not be reading this thesis but here are a few books you could start with. And of course the thesis was terribly boring for someone who is not in the field (even though it had "particles", "neural network" and other buzz words inside).