Frostmarrow said:
Well, I am a physicist, so I'll engage in a small digression...
I just happened to catch a rather intriguing documentary on the telly. But basically scientists now believe that the particles that makes up quarks aren't dots as atoms and protons and such often are made out to be. Instead the quarks are made up of strings and loops.
Television reportage of science is notoriously bad, unfortunately.
For example - the phrase "scientists now believe", which I bet came right from the program. Makes the thing sound like an accepted truth, when it isn't. Some like the theory, others don't. It is still only a theory.
The problem with the string theory is the only way for it to work is if those loops has access to more dimensions.
At the moment, the real problem with it isn't the number of dimensions it uses. To my knowledge, no string theory has ever predicted a thing that we could verify experimentally that cannot be explained by another theory. This lack of experimental verification is somewhat troubling to many scientists.
But, enough digression. About Eberron's cosmology...
I'd expect the short description of each plane to be pretty dull. Short descriptions don't give much detail. Remember that a short description of a prime material plane would also be pretty dull, but you can have a whole interesting campaign in one. It takes an entire supplement to make the standard wheel cosmology start to seem interesting, so I'd expect the same need for Eberron's new cosmology.
The thing that annoys me more than anything are the made up names that seem to have little or no connection to the contents of the plane. Made up names for the sake of having it sound foreign annoy me.