http://www.comcast.net/news/articles.../God.Particle/
This article illustrates everything wrong with theoretical physics.
1) `There MUST be a Higgs boson/God particle' - No, there is no such concept as "MUST" in science. Even science that we consider natural law needs assume constants to remnain true. Saying that anything MUST be one way or another closes the mind to unintended results and other possible answers and questions.
2) The name "GOD" particle. Its shows that the true nature of popular science is sensationalism and not knowledge. Money for research and not enlightenment. The discovery of a particle that adds mass to an atom doesn't reveal anything about a real or imagined God anymore than the discovery of a neutron or proton. Its like saying you understand archetecture because you discovered a Lego.
3) A belief in pen and paper over experimentation. They are slaves to theory and formulaic postulation. First you make it real on paper, not unlike how statistics show reality, and then you spend 30-40 years arguing over that theory and running tests to expressly prove (not disporove) that theory. '
Tesla knew that knowledge came from the combination of theory and experimentation. He started with a broad idea and then pushed that idea to discover new ideas and concepts. Spending more time in the lab than at a desk is crucial in science, IMO. Hats off to these physicists for trying to prove the theory, but I think the years of pen and paper theory have slapped blinders on them.