Musser's 10 Predictions by 2017

George Musser works for the Scientific American. He recently made a prediction of what he expects to see discovered in physics over the ten years.

Though they are just predictions, the fact of the matter is these predictions are all theoretically possible to have via the LHC at CERN, the Plank Satellite, Ligo, Lisa and other experiments going up over the next decade. If all goes well most and maybe all ten of these may in reality happen! We really are living in an interesting time in physics. Here is his list:

1. HIGGS
2. SUPERSYMMETRY
3. WHAT DARK MATTER IS
   
4. DARK ENERGY
   
5. HOW INFLATION HAPPENED (ie... was it an eternal inflation model or other)
   
6. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
7. PROTON DECAY
8. LITTLE BLACK HOLES (Formed in particle accelerators)
9. ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE (How the Universe began, like #5. String Landscape?)
   
10. OTHER EARTHS (Other earths with life. This one is the most far fetched but who knows)
    

Only time will tell. I hope to be working on a few of those at graduate school.