The Stuff of the Universe - Dark Matter and Reality

We have two ways of experiencing the world.

We gather information about the world through that which we directly experience, and we gather information about the world through that for which we wee indirect evidence.

Most of our universe, (about 90%), is comprised of "stuff" we can not directly experience, and yet we see evidence for its existence.

We call this, "stuff", Dark Matter.

We have no idea what is Dark Matter, but we know it is there. We can't directly experience Dark Matter because we have yet to find a way to observe it. As soon as we find some sort of technique, instrument, or sensory ability to observe Dark Matter, a whole new Universe will come into being.

What we know is, just because we can't observe something does not mean it is not there.

We often go through life as if reality is what we can see, hear, touch, taste, or feel ( or intuit and perceive). While it benefits us to live in a way based on our sensory input, there is most clearly more to reality. We only grasp a very, very tiny portion of what is going on in our world

We think our very limited senses are extraordinary, which they certainly are but they are nowhere close to all the senses found in nature. Scientists have discovered at least twenty-seven senses found in life. And of course all the known senses are just a beginning to what is possible. Our senses are a direct result of what we need to survive in our particular environment, hardly what is imaginable.

Think back to a time prior to Germ Theory. Humans around the world had evidence that something was creating sickness and ill health but they had no idea it was little microscopic organisms producing disease and death.

We can go back just a few decades to a time when DNA was not even imagined. Not a soul on the planet had any idea such little drop of protein would be the foundation of all of life. Because it was not observed in no way means it did not exist.

It takes the ability or the capability to experience, for actual experience to exist.

And so, as scientists observe the footprints of Dark Matter, it is a reminder that the universe is filled with much more than we can imagine. Our lives, our connections, our understanding of our very existence is most likely beyond what we can possibly comprehend.

And yet, we glimpse the majesty, the grandeur, the possibilities. We feel within our very souls a belonging to something incomprehensible and enigmatical.

Like a soft breeze waving in a wild flower field, we observe the evidence of that which we cannot see, and know that we are a part of the celestial mystery.



This post was sparked by the recent discovery from the Hubble, of two giant galaxy clusters colliding five billion years ago, demonstrating the reality of Dark Matter.