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To: koan who wrote (252777)	6/14/2014 9:21:32 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) of 540835

"What you need is proof, any proof, that he, she or it exists. " Maybe we have found The Gods, and Fred and Wilma are very, very black. I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. JBS Haldane You've said that dark matter and dark energy should be renamed "Fred" and "Wilma." Care to elaborate on that? Tyson: Yeah, because if I say "dark matter" you say "What kind of matter is that?" Well, we don't even know if it's matter. It's really dark gravity. Dark matter is a misleading term. There is so much first impression in the word. People ask "What do dark matter and dark energy have in common?" because they sound the same. If I called them Fred and Wilma you wouldn't ask what they have in common. You'd ask about them separately. But because they both have the word "dark" in them, people think they're related. Maybe they are, but at the moment there's no evidence that's at all the case. These are two entities that got involved in the name game earlier than I think they should have. io9.com

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