http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
The Large Hadron Collider goes into operation this May! I think all my particle physics professors were bouncing off the walls for this and the university I am at, the University of British Columbia, which is also building something for the LHC in the TRIUMF Nuclear lab.
So apparently, according to my professor, the LHC is the ultimate collider: we either find the Higgs, proving that Standard Model is darn right and leave everything to the theorists (whom all the experimental physicists I've met roll their eyes when alluding to), or prove that there is no Higgs and the Standard Model is wrong and start all over again.
So what do you think? Is experimental physics (specifically particle) going to end here? I mean, once the Standard Model is proven right, then most things can be proven, and the universities/governments would also be unlikely to fund for a larger collider than LHC, unless it's the upgrade. What is the Standard Model is WRONG? What will happen to physics?