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HAS ALIEN ENERGY FROM ANOTHER WORLD

ACTUALLY BEEN SEEN BY SCIENCE ?

THE NEW YORK TIMES

WEEK IN REVIEW

DARK MATTERS

AFLOAT IN A COSMIC HALL OF MIRRORS

By: George Johnson

Attached Picture of NGC 1999 a nebula

in the constellation Orion

Reaching beyond earth, air, fire and water,

Aristotle insisted that the heavenly spheres-the

realm of the stars and gods-must be composed

of something less mundane.

This ethereal fifth essence, or quintessence

was the very substance, medieval theologians

went on to propose, of which the angels

themselves were made.

The whole point of modern astronomy is to banish

such mystical notions, proving that everything

above consists of no-nonsense matter,

that we live in a material world.

But as was clear from Dark Matter 2000,

a conference held late last month in

Marina del Rey, Calif, the quest is only progressing

because of science's willingness to stretch

the very meaning of the word "matter".

 This once simple stuff is coming to seem as

ethereal as anyone could have imagined.

The word ethereal as defined in the dictionary means,

Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.

Not of this world; spiritual.

PAUSE THERE FOR A MOMENT.

HERE YOU HAVE SCIENTISTS

REMARKING ABOUT CERTAIN

MATTER BEING "NOT OF THIS WORLD"

So that is a significant statement by

the scientists that this discovery does involve

something from another world.

Despite hopes to the contrary, it now appears

more certain than ever that most of the universe

is made from some kind of unworldly

"dark matter"

that can pass right through ordinary matter,

leaving barely a trace.

READ THAT AGAIN

 MOST OF THE UNIVERSE

 UNWORLDLY DARK MATTER

THAT CAN PASS RIGHT THROUGH ORDINARY MATTER

 Scientists are also coming to believe that

empty space is pervaded by an

equally mysterious "dark energy".

A kind of anti-gravitational umph

that is accelerating the cosmic expansion,

he explosion set off by the big bang.

With a sense of irony, some physicists are

calling this hypothetical new force

quintessence.

 A reminder that Aristotle wasn't so far off

in believing that the heavens are more alien

and wondrous than meets the earthly eye.

THE NEW INVISIBLE OTHER WORLDLY FORCE

IS BEING CALLED BY PHYSICISTS

QUINTESSENCE.

 THE SAME WORD USED BY ARISTOTLE

TO DESCRIBE A UNIVERSE VERY ALIEN

QUINTESSENCE CONNECTS

TO THE WORD PENTECOST

THE POWER COMING DOWN FROM ABOVE

Here is an amazing fact.

 If you look up the word quintessence in the dictionary ,

you will find a connection to the word Pentecost,

and here we are talking about something from another world.

Coincidence ?

"The actual universe is far more interesting than

the universe of science fiction",

said Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, chairman of

the physics department at

Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

"Nature comes up with possibilities that

no science fiction writer would dare suggest".

With a foot in both worlds,

Dr. Krauss is the author of

"The Physics of Star Trek" and "Quintessence",

a newly updated book about

dark matter and dark energy.

Dark Matter was concocted to get around

a disturbing fact:

galaxies spin so fast that they should

have twirled apart eons ago.

Count the stars in the Milky Way and

add up their heft.

The inescapable conclusion is that there

isn't  nearly enough gravity to hold the

whole conglomeration together.

Astronomers originally hoped that something

ordinary like dim, burnt-out stars hiding

in the galactic outskirts could

account for the missing gravity.

 But attempts to find these machos,

for "massive compact halo objects",

have yet to pay off.

Deepening the mystery, cosmologists

have concluded that the universe probably

couldn't have evolved the way it has

unless most of the dark matter is not just dark

but invisible-made from exotic stuff that

neither emits nor reflects light.

THE BIBLE SAYS

THE SAME THING

In the Bible the Book of Amos says,

the day of the Lord is darkness and not light,

even very dark with no brightness in it.

What is this barely existing substance ?

Aristotle needed a hypothetical essence with

just the right properties to form

the luminous heavenly spheres.

 The theorists needed to come up with

particles that were massive enough to

balance the scales of nature and yet interacted

only very weakly with ordinary matter.

Otherwise it would be hard to explain

why the stuff hadn't already been found.

Tailor - made for this purpose is

the "weakly interacting massive particle"

or Wimp-the paradoxically powerful

rival to the Macho.

WIMP MEANS MEEK OR WEAK

To separate itself from theology,

science must find evidence that

it's creations are real.

At the recent conference in Marina Del Rey

the full title was

Fourth International Symposium

on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter

 in the Universe.

Astronomers from the University of Rome

defended a dramatic claim they had posted

on the internet earlier in the month:

that they had detected a wind of Wimps blowing

through the earth as it moves across the sky.

THE MEEK SHALL

INHERIT THE EARTH?

Is this what the Bible means when it says

the meek shall inherit the earth?

And since the word quintessence connects

this to Pentecost , is this what the Bible means

when it says, the spirit descends to earth

as a rushing mighty wind.?

READ THAT AGAIN:

QUINTESSENCE, PENTECOST, THE BIBLE

THE SPIRIT DESCENDS TO EARTH

AS A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND

NOW WE KNOW

Detecting a particle that was designed to be almost

undetectable is obviously quite a feat.

Other researchers immediately disputed the claim,

and a California team that has been diligently

seeking Wimps declared that it

had found none at all.

And so the question of what accounts

for the dark matter remains

appropriately up in the air.

Experimenters are also looking for other candidates,

like the axion , a lightweight, weakly interacting particle

(ghostlier than the famously ghostly neutrino)

that was originally devised for an

ntirely different purpose.

 Unless there were axions, physicists realized,

an important theory in particle physics

would contain a glaring mathematical inconsistency.

Named after a popular laundry detergent,

the axion would blot out the stain.

Even farther out into the speculative realm

is a very heavy version of the Wimp

called the Wimpzilla.

And farthest out of all is the

so-called mirror matter.

While Wimps would react very reluctantly

with ordinary matter, the mirror matter

would be even more aloof ,

apparent only through its gravitational pull.

LOOKING THROUGH

A GLASS DARKLY

Interesting here because as they call the

 essence mirror matter, they locate it in

Orion in NGC 1999 which is the reflection nebula.

And in the Bible it says,

we now look through a glass darkly

but then face to face.

Some physicists speculate that the mirror matter

is just regular matter

trapped in another dimension.

While its light is stuck inside what amounts

to a parallel universe, its gravity comes

shining through, bedeviling

the astronomer's calculations.

This nether realm might also be

home to the dark energy-the quintessence

needed to give a boost to the cosmic expansion,

explaining why its speeding up

instead of slowing down.

Most scientists would rather find answers

to the cosmic mysteries without

leaving their own universe.

But if this is not possible,

there may be some consolation.

Our shining stars would look like dark matter

to observers in the mirror world.

If some kind of cosmic justice prevails,

astronomers on both side of the looking glass

are sharing the same deep sense of confusion.