Particle physics has slowed down, but astrophysics has accelerated. Just to put things in perspective, the Hubble Space Telescope was only launched in 1990. Di

Particle physics has slowed down, but astrophysics has accelerated. Just to put things in perspective, the Hubble Space Telescope was only launched in 1990. Digital cameras, vastly larger telescopes, space telescopes, computers capable of analyzing much larger quantities of data and running much larger simulations have transformed astrophysics over the last 35 years or so.