Thank you for pointing out my dumb mistake.
Oh no. I apologize Huin. It wasn’t meant to be obnoxious. I only said that so you would not be surprised by an unexpected reply.
Thank you for the refs. I’ll keep them in mind. I am familiar with Brian Cox. But Martin Gardner I have not come across before.
You may enjoy Quanta Magazine if you don’t read it. Their science writing is readable. It too suffers from a problem that mars some science writing for me. Far too many off-topic analogies that distract the reader. However, the topics are at least interesting in themselves.
I personally find science writing harder to parse when it is stuffed with anecdotes or similes and thought experiments like “Think of the universe as if it were a cupcake”. It worsens my ability to concentrate on what is being said and muddles my mental compartments as cupcakes exist far away from physics inside my head ;-/.
You may like this piece from the last year on particle physics:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/matter-vs-force-why-there-are-exactly-two-types-of-particles-20250623/
That is interesting about aether. I only recollect it as a discredited early theory. I must check out what you refer to. Thanks.
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