Screaming Dark Matter

Make the stairs go away... or does the crochet dissappear?

Lost in the sky, but getting bigger.

From `Blink`by Rebecca E. Marshall, part of the `Ways to Dissappear` exhibition.

Suddenly I realised his pattern held a message,

something wordless clicked into place, an understanding.

When I closed my eyes I could see the same pattern

in the blackness.

Open close, open close.

Blinking I dissappeared.

Dark matter . Matter in our universe is out weighed by a factor of 6 to 7 by invisible cold dark matter. So says Marcus Chown, ( He and Phillip Ball are two of my favorite popular science writers.) in the New Scientist this week. Issue number 2722, page 38.

`The idea of working with the unobservable is not foreign to modern science.`- Melivin Bragg, In Our Time.

Cold dark matter doesn`t react with light, so we can`t see it. That doesn`t mean its not there... or is it?

Either Dark Matter, or Newtons calculations about gravity were incorrect. Lawks! That`ll put the cat amoungst the pidgeons.