[jrussino]

Are there any particular resources that you recommend for a high-level overview of this kind of stuff? I'm an engineer with a solid grasp of classical mechanics and strong math background, but very little exposure to modern physics (basically, anything discovered after 1905) and I would like to be able to read about and appreciate this type of work. Where to start?

Apologies for taking the conversation off on a tangent, but you seem passionate about this.

[auxbuss]

The short course, 'From the Big Bang to Dark Energy'[0], is an excellent introduction.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/bigbang