Re: Missing matter found in deep space,strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone of the universe.

On Wed, 21 May 2008 16:44:22 -0700 (PDT), Florida
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On May 21, 7:32 pm, Rumpelstiltskin
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Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/sc_nm/space_matter_dc

Missing matter found in deep space

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorTue May 20, 3:17 PM ET

Astronomers have found some matter that had been missing in deep space
and say it is strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone
of the universe.

The ethereal strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms could account for up
to half the matter that scientists knew must be there but simply could
not see, the researchers reported on Tuesday.

<snip>

Very interesting. Little by little, we learn more.

Hmmm. I thought that the "missing matter" was supposed to be evidence
of the existence of God!

Everything not yet known is evidence of the existence
of God, of course: "God of the Gaps", as He's been called.
He used to have a lot to do. His angels had to push the
planets around (occasionally stopping for coffee, at which
times most of the planets tended to slide back so that the
angels had to run back and catch them and start them
moving in the right direction again). He used to make rain.
He used to visit drought and plague upon those who
annoyed Him by not being pious enough. (You know
how difficult He can be when He gets annoyed.) He
commanded the slaughter of those unfortunate enough to
live in land that was needed for the expanding lebensraum
of the Chosen People, or who had enough daughters who
had not yet known man to make slaughtering their parents
and brothers and taking those daughters as sex-slaves
cost-effective.

> Regrettably, in our sinful age, His realm has shrunk
> almost to vanishiment, compared to what it was before.

> The Sea of Faith> Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear

> And naked shingles of the world.

> Ah, love, let us be true> To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

> Where ignorant armies clash by night.

-- Matthew Arnold, from "Dover Beach"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Beach

The most adroit and astonishing interpretation of "Dover
Beach"
that I've ever read, and I have read many in 45 years. Bravo,
Rumpl.

Ditto. But you have to really wonder if the writer meant that....

:^) I agree, and I do wonder that. often. I read (or perhaps
heard) Rumpl's comments as a marvelous jazz riff, taking off from the
material at hand and creating something completely new from it.

Looks like I did something amazing I wasn't
even aware of. I'm glad to hear that, since I
wasn't conceited enough already!

Just kidding, I think. People I know don't
seem to find me as conceited as I find myself,

Hm. 'Conceited' would not be in the first 25 words I might use
to describe your posts. Perhaps your early life inculcated you with a
specifically English standard of good behavior that Americans don't
share to quite that extent?



That would be very early. I was only 6 when I came
to America.



though maybe that just means I'm a good
actor. They do seem to expect me to know
everything though (except about pop culture,
sports, and internal combustion engines).

Have you ever seen a funny little tv program called "Cash Cab"?
You'd make out very well.


No, I watch altogether too much junk TV, but it's
usually sitcoms (and Judge Judy) in my case, rather than
game shows. I do occasionally watch Jeopardy.

I can't stand "reality" shows like the "Island" shows
and "American Idol". I've never watched even one of
them for more than a minute or two. I did like the old
"Gong Show", which was perhaps an ancient
predecessor of the reality shows.

An old Science Fiction writer, I can't remember who
offhand, foresaw the reality shows. In the novel of
which I'm thinking of, the entire society had been
dumbed-down. There were shows on TV where
members of the mostly ignorant population could win
prizes. There was one contestant who was
hopelessly dense, who floundered about in response
to the simplest questions. She kept getting prompted
more and more heavily by the show's panel of
experts, until finally she won the prize. She was very
happy and proud of herself. The emcee and the
panel of experts congratulated her on her perspicuity.
Maybe it was "Fahrenheit 451"?


.

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