Most physicists are not working at the most fundamental level of reality, they're a solid state physicist or a thermodynamicist or an astrophysicist, but if you are working at that level then you have no choice but to go deeper and deeper into very abstract mathematics. Everybody would prefer it if there were lots of new experimental results to work with that would give hints on which way to go, but there just isn't any. Most thought the LHC would find lots of interesting stuff besides the Higgs, they thought supersymmetric particles would be easier to find than the Higgs, but there is no hint of them or of anything else that is new. Lots of big expensive experiments were set up to detect Dark Matter but they all came up negative; we don't know anything more about what Dark Matter is than we did 20 years ago, the same is true of Dark Energy. You've got to work with what you're given and all we've got right now is math. I mean, ... it's not as if physicists had a choice.
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