When I started with my Ph.D., I witnessed an ambiguous situation. Was it a force at all? How would it relate to quantum physics? One of the most mysterious objects that encapsulated all these questions seemed to be black holes. The ability to make an impact was getting more difficult and the next big thing was perhaps decades away.īut there was still one major, unsolved question: What is the true nature of gravity? After all, it was the last force resisting assimilation into the Standard Model of physics. However, it was also clear that particle physics was getting too big.
Particle physics was at its peak and I was impressed by the large collaborations and the success of the Standard Model in ruling our world view. Here, I try to tell the story from my personal perspective and mention a few of the lessons I learned along the way.Īs a student, I was drawn into physics by the fundamental questions about space, time, and matter that it addressed. Witnessing how such a process unfolds from the beginning was an interesting experience for me. It is the result of a long scientific but also sociological process: the pioneering work of a few and the collective effort of many, understanding the basic physics, long term visions, sudden revelations, technological game changers, continuously growing incremental insights, and in the end, also some luck.
Imaging a black hole does not just happen.
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