Particle accelerators have called out spirits who promised us something new but misled us. Now the models and particles are all there and we can't get rid of them anymore. The gluons and quarks, pions, muons, bosons and neutrinos, and no master strong enough to sweep them all out again and be satisfied with the only really stable elementary particles, the proton and the electron.

Christian Hermenau has a doctorate in physics. He works as a freelancer at the university.