The Universe is still a place of mystery and wonder. As a cosmologist, I’m exhilarated that we can make some progress towards tackling what seem very fundamental questions. These programs focus on was there a beginning? Are we alone? What’s the future of the cosmos? What is the nature of reality? With each advance, new questions come into sharper focus. The key issue is what we still don’t know.
The precise values for the fundamental laws of nature were set at the very begining of our universe, in the big bang. The rest was just just mathematics.
