Monday, November 26, 2007

The Answer to The ’Life Question’

So if dark matter is cosmic mass that is invisible to us (due to its slow decay -- theoretically, it takes about 2.1 million-billion years for half of this invisible stuff to "disappear" -- therefore, emitting radiation at pretty much undetectable level), and if this invisible stuff called dark matter is what "magically" gives gravitational effects on galaxies and clusters, ...

... then I wonder if this is the same stuff that is used in what we can't explain ... the "everything happens for a reason," the "love will find a way," the "fate will guide you," the "it wasn't meant to be," and all the other cliches that we find to be all too convenient to explain all of our troubles away, and yet we can't come up with anything better.

Next time someone give you a cliche, just say its dark matter at work.

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