A fascination with theoretical models of reality means that physics is basic part of my long-term program of study. Physics is certainly not the only way to approach the absolute and infinite but it seems more concrete than mathematics and more universal than religion or psychology.

Membership in the American Physical Society is not restricted to professionals. Their monthly magazine, Physics Today, contains news from the frontiers as well as background material in many areas.

Readings in Physics

The following books are in my library. I haven't read all of them yet. This list is roughly in order from the general and accessible to more specialised and difficult.

• Einstein and Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
• Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
• Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory and Subatomic Particles
• Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
• Binney and Merrifield, Galactic Astronomy
• Einstein, Relativity
• Feynman, QED and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
• Planck, A Survery of Physical Theory
• Ludvigsen, General Relativity
• Weyl, Space-Time-Matter