The New York Times has a good piece today, tonight? tomorrow?, with Dennis Overbye answering questions on physics. Many good topics are covered, like time travel, the big bang, dark energy, the LHC, and the nature of the universe. Interesting stuff and a fairly good overview of a lot of areas of interest, I think.
I think the most amazing thing I have covered lately is dark energy. The galaxies are falling up. How amazing is that? But I have already gone on about that above. In general, I am continually amazed at the passion, resourcefulness and stubbornness of humans, both individually and in groups, and how they manage to pick away at finding out things you would have thought were impossible to find out. There is a robot baking dirt on Mars as I write this. Cosmologists are finding traces of physics from when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second old and hotter than any particle accelerator will ever recreate in a fuzz of microwaves in the sky left over from the Big Bang. They fixed the Hubble Space Telescope, again and again and again.
But then, I’m a mathematician, what do I know ^^
