Complex Numbers

March

Yes, yes, I know it's been over a month. Sorry.

Went to Texas (Waltz World Tour, baby!) Had a great time. Finally met MaryLou and Acme in person. Saw Houston Space Center, which I'd been wishing to do for some time, now. Attended a fun wedding. Drank good beer. Ate a genuine Texas steak. Decided that you can't see America from an interstate, and made plans to a) road trip more and b) fly to England in May.

Anyway, that's not what finally got me off my butt to post, though that was pretty awesome. So's this:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/03/a_quintessence_of_dust.html

What we are left with are the cosmic shadows on the wall of Plato's cave. Ultimately the images from Hubble will give us a glimpse of conditions that existed an infinitesimal instant after the Big Bang. There will never be an image of the Big Bang itself, because it had no image. There was Nothing, and then there was Something, and all we can hope is to see that Something as soon as possible after it became.

Roger Ebert now officially rocks.