10 famous science predictions that failed to come true. I'm familiar with them, MS. They were predictions, not scientific theories. All of them, including Einstein's, offered no mathematical proof for their speculation (Enrico Fermi provided the proof for splitting the atom within a few years of Einstein's conjecture, using, not incidentally, Einstein's relativity theory as the foundation. Einstein never went there, which is why he is so often erroneously identified with the atomic bomb.) whereas there is a solid mathematical proof, special relativity, that has not been disproved in 105 years and which supports my previous statements (or, more accurately, my statements are in support of it. No special insight on my part). All you need to do is defeat special relativity theory, and you will prove that what I believe is out to lunch. I'd be proud to tell everyone that I was acquainted with you when you take the Nobel Prize for Physics and join the ranks of the greatest geniuses this world has ever known.
Aside from Einstein, the other individuals you quote were not exactly mental giants - have you ever heard of them beyond those quotes? Regardless, even geniuses have their foibles. Perhaps the smartest person ever, Isaac Newton, thought that the alchemist's Philosopher's Stone just might exist and have the ability to turn lead into gold. Interstellar space travel at speeds exceeding or even approaching c is the new age Philospher's Stone.
Hasn't this been done several times in the past decade using the big particle accellerator at CERN?
Nope. CERN has achieved closing speeds approaching 2c, when two particles are fired at one another, each travelling near c, and then collide.