I read a lot of ranting about theoretical physics this year. That there are no new theories since 60 years. That the LHC is just finding things that we already know. That all ideas about supersymetry fail or can not be proved. That we didn’t figure out anything about dark matter. That we didn’t find any new particle, like really new (not like the Higgs Boson).
Maybe we didn’t look close enough. Maybe our ideas were not perfect enough. Or maybe this woman is right that science is not beautiful!
Additionally there has a paper been published that drew more attention than usual. It is called “Dissoving the Fermi Paradox” and explains:
The Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a high ex ante probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe. […] We show that this conflict arises from the use of Drake-like equations, which implicitly assume certainty regarding highly uncertain parameters. We examine these parameters […] and show that extant scientific knowledge corresponds to uncertainties that span multiple orders of magnitude. This makes a stark difference. When the model is recast to represent realistic distributions of uncertainty, we find a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other intelligent life in our observable universe, and thus that there should be little surprise when we fail to detect any signs of it.