Maybe Small Experiments Are The Way To Go

What's next after the success of the Large Hadron Collider and its success in finding the Higgs boson, the so-called God Particle?

America begged off the LHC because of a failure to keep the Superconducting Super Collider realistic in the early 1990s. Critics of funding the LHC knew that it was going to take an International Linear Collider (ILC) to interpret whatever the LHC found. Physics was getting more obscure and more expensive and less practical. The rush to Big Science starves lots of other experiments, as American scientists have discovered with the James Webb Space Telescope cost overruns and delays.