Dark matters

He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing. - Job 26:7

Are you aware that the majority of the universe is missing?

I don't mean that we can't see it with telescopes or travel across it in a spaceship but that a good deal of it is totally unaccounted for. The space between the sun and Pluto, even between two objects in the room your sitting in. Scientists know there is more... they see it's effects, they can calculate it's product with math. There's more energy and more matter all around us but no one can find it. For this reason they call what they can't find dark matter and dark energy.

This sort of thing might sound weird but in a similar way Neptune's existance was predicted before it was ever discovered by observing the motions of it's neighbour Uranus. Motions that could only be explained by another large object nearby.

Here's an interesting passage from a book on this topic...

"Almost all of the universe is missing: 96 percent, to put a number on it. The stars we see at the edges of distant galaxies seem to be moving under the guidance of invisible hands that hold the stars in place and stop them from flying off into empty space. According to our best calculations, the substance of those invisible guiding hands - known to scientists as dark matter - is nearly a quarter of the total mass in the cosmos. Dark matter is just a name, though. We don't have a clue what it is.

And then there is the dark energy. When Albert Einstein showed that mass and energy were like two sides of the same coin, that one could be converted into the other using the recipe E=mc2, he unwittingly laid the foundation for what is now widely regarded as the most embarrassing problem in physics. Dark energy is scientists' name for the ghostly essence that is making the fabric of the universe expand ever faster, creating ever more empty space between galaxies. Use Einstein's equation for converting energy to mass, and you'll discover that dark energy is actually 70 percent of the mass in the cosmos." - From the book "13 things that don't make sense"

More dark matter

When I read this I'm reminded of Paul walking into Athens and seeing the statue to the unknown god. The people of Athens worshiped a plethora of gods but they knew somehow that there was something more. Today scientists also know there is something more. Their creators are abiogenesis and evolution, dark matter and dark energy the invisible hands that hold the universe and their supreme entity is the theory of everything.