Hey humanodon, thanks for such a thoughtful response.

1. My target audience: I want anyone who loves or has an interest in science to want to pick this book up and enjoy it. However, if there is a niche group of people that I would like to connect with, it is young students in high school and university that are just starting their careers. I want them to know what the frontier is. I want them to know what the biggest questions in science are, so that they can potentially go into fields related to those questions.

2. The driving force for this work is definitely a curiosity for the unknown. But another driving force is undeniably a perspective I hold dear: that just because we don't know something, that doesn't mean it can't be known or that we should settle for not knowing, or we should use God-of-the-gaps. We should be striving to answer the most difficult questions.

3. I understand that there are parts of this opening that are a little technical. I'm going to try my best to inject my own voice and personality in this a lot more as I go along - where I can.

4. By anecdotal stuff do you mean more personal stuff from my own life or my granddad's life?

5. At the end of this chapter I spend several pages contemplating the Big Bang from my personal perspective. This is really important I agree with you. I definitely want to inject a lot of my own voice and find my own voice as a writer.