Dear Josh,
i liked your simple approach to advance physics. We really need to understand the fundamentals better than go on expanding Physics like the "expanding Universe". Anti-matter as time reversal of matter provides a good means to use early universe studies to provide us better knowledge about the role played by Gravity then, rather in the latter part of the Universe. The key to better Physics appear to lie closure to the birth of the Universe. I personally feel that Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe further into space may help provide innovative Physics compared to what people are expecting from The large beam Collider experiment in Geneva! It will be nice if younger scientists like you think of such issues, as they do involve huge expenditure of world's money in the name of providing scientific breakthroughs of 'high calibre'.
Here, my post is titled 'Time Wasted Is Money Wasted' and may be both have been wasted at the cost of the fancy of a few so-called PEERS of high science of Particle Physics. i don't decry science as such, but the money spent that could better be spend to make our world a better place to live, with peace and love abound, instead of violence and mutual hatred.Treat this post as both more light and less heavy!