The last 10 days has seen a freeze on any half decent reading. But, today i managed to sneak in a couple of hours to wrap up the excellent “A Short History of Almost Everything” by Bill Bryson. This on what we have figured about the universe that we live in:

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand

It is quite amazing that the more we advance the less sure we are of what we know. A thousand years ago – western scientists (if such a thing existed) would have told you with complete confidence that the earth is flat, at the centre of the universe and the sun goes around it.
A hundred years ago scientists declared that everything that had to be found had been more or less found.
And now? And now we finally, as a species, admit that we really don’t know too much. And even what we think we know is probably wrong. Maybe admitting that is the first step in finding out the answer to life, universe and everything else.