Maxwell Is The Physicist's Physicist.

Gravity Is So Strong That Space Is Bent Round Onto Itself, Making It Rather Like The Surface Of The Earth. If One Keeps Traveling In A Certain Direction On The Surface Of The Earth, One Never Comes Up Against An Impassable Barrier Or Falls Over The Edge, But Eventually Comes Back To Where One Started.

Time And Space Are Finite In Extent, But They Don't Have Any Boundary Or Edge. They Would Be Like The Surface Of The Earth, But With Two More Dimensions.

Because Imaginary Time Behaves Like Another Direction In Space, Histories In Imaginary Time Can Be Closed Surfaces, Like The Surface Of The Earth, With No [existential] Beginning Or End.

[question: What Do You Think Was The Most Important Physics Idea To Emerge This Year?] We Won't Know For A Few Years.

The Human Capacity For Guilt Is Such That People Can Always Find Ways To Blame Themselves