Dark

[poliphilo]

OK- so most of the universe is made up of "dark matter"- which doesn't show up on any of our scientific instruments- and "dark energy"- which is even more elusive. As one of the sceptical participants in last night's Horizon grumbled, "this isn't physics, it's fairies at the bottom of the garden."

Exactly.

Am I being naiive, or does this mean that scientific materialism is finished? Or, to put it another way, who's to say that ghosts and fairies (and angels and demons and djinns and gods and goddesses and Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster) can't exist when it's scientific orthodoxy that most of the stuff in the universe is something other than matter as we know it?

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This particular mineshaft was somewhere in the North of England, but I believe similar experiments are being carried out at a number of different sites.

You'll be visiting him in Oxford, won't you?

[cassiopia.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll visit. But plane tickets costing what they do and my vacation time allotment being as pitiful as it is, I'll be lucky to get over once a year. The ultimate plan is for me to try and move over there but finding a way around all the red tape is problematic. We are polyamorous and marriage is not an option. His primary partner will be living with him and our relationship is too new for me to move in with them so I'd need my own place as well. Many hurdles.