yeah more funding and focus should start to focus on stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory...
Time to spend some money else well.
Time to spend some money else well.
This Wikipedia entry is 1) generically about the type of unproven theoretical model without experimental support that is used in an attempt to justify investment in the next big collider; 2) more specifically, about a theoretical model that has been shown to be wrong in terms of describing what we observe.
I agree that we could probably spend billions of dollars better than on another enormous collider, even within high-energy physics, but it probably wouldn't be best spent on E8 Theory. Figuring out how it would be best spent, however, would be contentious to say the least.