Wrapped Up in Reading

I’m not too scientific. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage*. American scientists, scoring big in the 2006 Nobels in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine, make me think I should learn more. John Mather and George Smoot snagged their Nobel in Physics for measuring the oldest light in the heavens, a feat that convinced skeptics of the Big-Bang theory of the universe's origin. Stephen Hawking called their accomplishment “the discovery of the century, if not all time.”

These 2006 books might just expand my universe: The View from the Center of the Universe and The Trouble with Physics.

*theory stolen from humorist Mark Russell-thanks!