This article is basically an appeal for your help, but also relates to a problem that many people will find interesting!

"The Trouble With Physics - The rise of string theory, the fall of a science and what comes next" is a very interesting and multi-faceted book, in equal doses about particle physics and the beaurocracy and inertia present in modern physics research.<

As you might have seen from the homepage, I used to work in IT security, I also avidly follow security bulletins and news, so I like to think I'm pretty well-versed in how the internet works and how exceptionally poor our level of online privacy really is.

About conditional comments

Conditional comments in Internet Explorer 7 are a way to ensure only IE or non-IE browsers parse certain parts of a page. This is mostly used to include CSS compatibility hacks by way of a <link> element in the page header, but they can in fact wrap any amount of HTML anywhere in the document.

DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert in astronomy or physics. If you spot factual or numerical errors below, please report them in the comments section. If you have corrections to empirical distances or object data, please cite upto date authoritative references (ie. not Wikipedia), as I believe I have used the most recent accurate data available.