PHYSICS: Optical and Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter and Materials Science, Experimental Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics. ASTRONOMY: Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and the Early Universe, Large Scale Structure, Galaxy Clusters, Galaxy Evolution, Interacting Binary Stars (Cataclysmic Variables, Algols, Neutron Star and Black Hole Binaries)
'The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative... '