Again, there's no law saying that you must be able to do x because you did y, despite people doubting it. This is very star trek like thinking. Where is the unified field theory after 70 years?

Star Trek could get away with that kindof thinking because it is science fiction. You CAN go faster than the speed of life, IF you are smart enough, IF you are daring enough. The most explicit example of this was in Star Trek 5.

''What you fear is the unknown. The people of your planet once believed their world was flat. ...Columbus proved it was round. They said the sound barrier could never be broken. ...It was broken. They said warp speed could not be achieved. The Great Barrier is the ultimate expression of this universal fear. It is an extension of personal fear.''

In real life, however, it doesn't work that way. When Columbus discovered the new world in the 15th century, no educated person actually believed the Earth was flat. Likewise, no scientist ever said that the sound barrier couldn't be broken: After all, bullets routinely broke the sound barrier, and so did all kinds of other things. And as far as we can tell, the speed of light is as fundamental as the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass. It is extremely unlikely that any future scientific advances will ever enable this law to be broken.

As far as the unified field theory, you bring up an important point. I am by no means an expert in this subject, but I believe that the field of physics (particularly the standard model) may be caught in a scientific dead end. Not unlike the field of medicine was in a dead end before germ theory. Modern physics is unable to verify its own foundational assumptions, and practitioners are required to take them on faith.

As for the claim that the large hadron collider actually proved the existence of the higgs boson? They spent billions of dollars on the most extensive scientific project ever, and the entire framework of the standard model was dependent on it. They were going to find it whether it was there or not.