Physics of Future and Convergence of Ideas

If we restrict ourselves to stick to physical questions that are in need of an answer in upcoming years* and look carefully through the biggest problems of today's particle physics and cosmology, surprisingly we find a neat relation. Just from browsing through the literature and the universe of ideas suggested as resolutions you see the biggest problems are either hierarchy problems or fine tunings. Roughly speaking, in principle hierarchy problems and fine tunings lie in the same category of problems. This is where the ideas of new physics at TeV meet the problems of dark energy and inflation. In my opinion this convergence of ideas is a good sign of a deep new physics waiting somewhere very close to our today's level of comprehension of physical world.
That's what makes today's theoretical physics amazingly provocative!


* By this I'm certainly excluding long lasting mysteries such as non-perturbative physics or quantum gravity if you can actually call the latter one a mystery! ;)