Maybe advanced AI of that nature could be the way forward in physics. I was quite good at physics at school etc. but have quite a job mentally even figuring how a gyroscope works and my brain totally fuzzes over at attempts to combine quantum field theory with general relativity. It may be that the theory of everything is there but just a bit hard for our ape brains to process. It would probably require better AI than we have at the moment though.

A little closer to what you asked about, Demis Hassabis of Deep Mind has kind of suggested:

>I was giving a talk at CERN a few months ago; obviously they create more data than pretty much anyone on the planet, and for all we know there could be new particles sitting on their massive hard drives somewhere and no-one’s got around to analyzing that because there’s just so much data. So I think it’d be cool if one day an AI was involved in finding a new particle.