The reason we give the impression that we think that elementary particle physics is more fundamental than other branches of physics is because it is. I do not know how to defend the amounts being spent on particle physics without being frank about this. But by elementary particle physics being more fundamental I do not mean that it is more mathematically profound or that it is more needed for progress in other fields or anything else but only that it is closer to the point of convergence of all our arrows of explanation.
