[kurthr]

Yes, and that she has a book to promote with the same thesis doesn't help matters... It makes it look even more like a selfish cry for attention and ultimately money. She has something interesting to say, but to say that the Higgs Boson measurement was somehow well predicted is... odd. One could also make similar arguments against the Gravity Wave observatories, but now that we've actually seen (and continue to see) events, that is silly.

Really, there was a golden age of particle physics when it was easier to theorize and find things. Maybe the allocation of money should be different, but that has more to do with politics and how governments make funding decisions. How do they view the benefits of what we learn building an LHC, collecting, and analyzing the data? You can argue about whether those benefits matter to physics... but Tim Berners-Lee had to work somewhere.

[andrewflnr]

Gravitational wave observatories are not the same thing at all. They're a new kind of telescope, and new cosmology and astrophysics results are going to keep coming in. Confirming yet another prediction of GR is icing.