Since it's the end of the quarter/finals week, I'd like to make some comments about what I've learned throughout roughly ten weeks of astrophysics. First, to be completely honest, my opinions haven't changed all that drastically regarding what an astrophysicist does. However, what the class did do was give me the opportunity to see (to a small degree) the inner-workings of the things that I find most interesting about our universe. Needless to say, the actual work of an astrophysicist seems more difficult than simply looking at twinkling stars in the sky. Besides that, these blogs gave me a great excuse to be a nerd and look up information about things I found particularly interesting. So, since this is in all likelihood my last post for the time being, I wanted to pose a question for whoever might be reading this (probably nobody...). There's so many complex systems that comprise just the observable parts of the Universe. So far, the big bang is pretty much the accepted theory... but what came before that? I've tried to look into it, but I'm honestly having trouble finding any concrete evidence for anything in particular... Curse you Phys111 for making me think.