I just spotted (a bit late) that Steven Weinberg (one of the giants of my field) has written a piece in the New York Review of Books entitled “Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know”. I recommend it. He talks about astronomy, cosmology, particle physics, and by casting his eye over the arc of their recent (intertwined) histories of ideas, experiments and discoveries, tries to put the Standard Models of particle physics and of cosmology into perspective.
The article is here. Enjoy!
-cvj
(P.S. Follow this link to find a summary of articles by him for the NYRB. Lots of good reading to be found there.)
