Jorge Cham of PhD Comics conducted an interview with physicists Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng, then set the audio of the interview to this amazing video comic type thing. Can't really do it justice - you need to go and watch this thing. Watch it and be inspired and amazed.
Let's look at what the universe is made out of, like a pie chart. 5% of it - stuff we know. 20% - dark matter. 75% of it - we have no idea.
That's a lot of stuff.
Too many people think "Yeah scientists mostly have it figured out. They're down studying the details of the details of the details." But we have no idea! We're only now, by looking at the details, realizing what the questions we should be asking are.
When I obtained an undergrad degree in Physics during the first Earth age, that was certainly the prevailing sentiment. I think perhaps it was due to Physics grad students being a very, very depressed lot.
In the vid, Whiteson and Feng discuss the state of modern particle physics, what is really known about the universe, and most significantly the vast uncharted future.
Check it out at PhD Comics here
Dont miss it.