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Grief

Do you sort of wake up in the middle of the night, wondering what the « dark matter » is ?

Some scientists do.

The dark matter is very insulting to our intelligence.

Consider that we are able to compute the mass of the Universe. Indeed, the total mass of the Universe. But there is a bit of a minor problem.

We know the total mass of the Universe.

When we add up the mass of all the matter that we can identify, the total does not match, not all, not nearly right.

Nearly 90% of the Mass of the Universe is missing.

It is there, be we cannot see it, we cannot even understand what it is.

So machines are built to analyse the matter, known and unknown, we had even better not know how much each one is paying in taxes to identify something that is not going to change anything in our life.

The next accelerator being built will possibly tell us where the Higgs bosson is and what it looks like. We will have spent billions of dollars to find it. Then, the addition will still be unbalanced.

Yet, I know where and what the “Dark Matter” of the Universe is.

Should I tell them?

Dark Matter?

We have no idea of what that dark matter could be.

Do we have any idea of what grief is?

How can you explain that when your little girl is going away for a 3 months vacation, you feel something strong when you see her going away with the buss, already she has forgotten you, she is discussing with all her friends.

We feel some sadness when our girlfriend is leaving us for a year of studies abroad. She says she will write. She says she will phone. She says she will e-mail. We feel sadness, but no grief, even if we know that one year away could turn out to be one year out of many.

So what is it that makes our head, our body feel as if the guts, the heart had been ripped away when one, who was part of your life, is leaving you for no return?

You understand now what that Dark Matter is?

It is all the grief we humans have felt when the loved ones, the hated ones, the indifferent ones, have died both in their life but also in ours.

That Grief is so heavy that it tilts the Universe.

They look in the sky for the Dark Matter that fills the Universe

They look too far

That Dark matter is here,

in our body,

in our eyes,

in the light that went out of our eyes.

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Universe given mid-life booster

By Dr David Whitehouse

BBC News Online science editor

Chandra's view of a large cluster of galaxies

The orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope has shown that the expansion of the Universe received a kick midway through its life, about six billion years ago.

Its images of clusters of galaxies have provided astronomers with a new way to probe the history of the cosmos.

It casts new light on the unknown "dark energy" that dominates the Universe.

Using the data, astronomers estimate that dark energy makes up about 75% of the Universe, "dark matter" about 21%, and visible matter only about 4%.

'Biggest mystery'

"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics," said Steve Allen, from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is the leader of the study.