Adding more because I've read her book (not to quibble). I wouldn't say the point is that new physics is out of reach until we build more expensive accelerators. She herself is a theoretical physicist, has theories she'd like to see tested and proposes experiments that could do so. I think she's saying rather that particle physics involves enormous opportunity costs -- decades long / billion dollar experiments -- and that the research agenda is not scientifically justified, but is sociological and even aesthetic in origin.

I am as well, because the internet isn’t designed for people to reach an objective consensus about reality nor does it account for the way humans really engage one another naturally. We need a platform designed to encourage people to reach understanding but anyone, myself included, who wants to do this is looking for a profit motive when some things are more important than profit as much as I hate to say it.

The HN-centric term for this is "middlebrow"; a good middlebrow filter is definitely required to navigate HN.

Can you elaborate?

Searching HN for it brings up this explanation as the first hit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224

ya i aint never heard the term b4 neither. colorful. wonder if middlebrow refers to furrowing between teh browz??>