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Books: Iain M banks Culture novels ('Consider Phlebas' a personal favourite), science ('Black Holes, Wormholes & Time Machines' by Jim Al-Khalili, 'The Magic Furnace' by Marcus Chown, 'Parallel Worlds' by Michio Kaku, 'The Extravagant Universe' by Robert Kirshner). Previous recommendations include- 'Chaos' by James Gleick, 'E=mc2' by David Bodanis, 'The Search For El Dorado' by John Hemming, 'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat' by John Gribbin. Reference- 'Nature's Building Blocks' by John Emsley, 'Particle Physics' by Donald Perkins, 'Fusion: Energy of the Universe' by Garry McCracken and Peter Stott. Currently reading 'In Search of Superstrings' by John Gribbin.

Various lectures/interviews- (Remove Spaces) 'Tick, Tick Pulsating Star: How we wonder what you are', supernovae, neutron stars and pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Open University 1997-http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/69 'Atoms to X-rays: The Mystery of Empty Space: Higgs Bosons, Vacuum Energy and Extra Dimensions', UCSD physicist Kim Griest, May 23th 2001- http://www.ucsd.tv/library-test.asp?showID=5551 Dr. Kim Griest discusses dark matter and dark energy with Dr. David Lemberg/Sam Kephart on Science & Society radio, April 19th 2006- http://www.scienceandsociety.net/podcasts/archives/2006/04/dr_kim_griest_p.html 'The Hunt for WIMPs', Fermilab Long Range Planning sessions Dan Bauer, Oct 14th 2003-http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/LongRangePlanning/031014Bauer/ 'Supernova, dark energy and the expanding universe- what's next?', Fermilab Colloquium Lectures S. Perlmutter, May 30th 2001- http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/colloquium/Perlmutter/ Various websites- (Remove Spaces) 'Cosmic Anarchists', Hazel Muir investigates the wild world of Q-balls- http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko/new_sci_qballs.html 'Black Holes FAQ', a list by Ted Bunn- http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html 'Ripples at the Heart of Physics', the Higgs mechanism by Simon hands, Cern- http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy400w/particle/higgs5.htm