Why I hate physics (a drunken rate)

They just make it up as they go along, don’t they?
Dark matter… dark energy… dark flow… quarks… charms… higgs-bosons…
They invent infinitely more elaborate nonsense to explain things that are beyond understanding, and when they’re proved wrong they say ‘oh, that was the old theory, now we have a new theory that we’d like to try another, different experiment on. Please give us some more money.’
We’ve just spent BILLIONS on a Large Collider, supposedly to find a specific particle that the people running it are now telling us may not be something they will find anyway. They do say, though, that they may or may not now have discovered a different particle that may travel faster than the speed of light. If this is true, it completely disproves all the things that physicists have been telling us for CENTURIES, and yet these same physicists want us to give them more money to see if they’re right or wrong now, which will then prove whether they were right or wrong in the first place. And either way, THEIR MONEY’S IN THE BANK….

I have a theory of my own I’d like to explore. I think I know why leaves are falling off trees at this time of year and landing in my garden. I think there may be an invisible irritating blackbird living in my oak tree, which is flying around and pecking off the leaves and throwing them down to the ground. I’d like a billion-dollar grant to build a combination telescope and camera to photograph every single inch of the tree under different lighting conditions and with different lenses to see if I can catch a picture of this immature flying bastard to prove I’m right. In ten years time, if I haven’t been proved right, I’ll invent an equally illusive but slightly smaller bird hiding in a neighbouring tree which I’ll say is somehow masking the blackbird by oscillating its wings at a certain speed to cause interference, and I’ll ask for another billion-dollar grant (adjusted for inflation) so I can build a different, bigger, rounder, pinker telescope/camera so that I can prove I’m right in believing there is something that is causing me to be wrong about the original blackbird, which I may not have been right about in the first place.

It’s the worlds most expensive folly.
Physics is just fiction.

RC 7-10-11