dcl, I'm very much an amateur enthusiast only (I'm a motor mechanic by trade!)... it's great to have a professional physicist participating on the board. I'm sure we will all learn a great deal from your input. At the moment my favourite reading is Brian Greene. I'm sure the local librarian is getting a bit annoyed that I'm 'hogging' his books (my library has
'The Fabric of the Cosmos' and
'The Elegant Universe' which I enjoy very much).
Not being mathematically trained I sometimes struggle, but I try hard with the simpler stuff.
Yesterday I printed out my first 'real' science paper from arXiv.org for bedtime reading, so I guess I'm making progress.
