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Everything in the universe is either mass or energy, but there's not enough of either. Scientists think 96% of dining table is not. The phenomenon we call life is something that biologists have almost given up trying to define -the cosmos is missing. They have come up with names for the missing stuff - "dark energy" and "dark matter" - but that doesn't really tell us anything about them. And it's not as if they're not important: dark energy is cosmologists are searching for clues to their whereabouts.
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I know you think you're more than a sack of molecules, but why? Next time you see a tree, ask yourself why that is alive when your wooden instead they're investigating ways to make different combinations of molecules come alive. Bizarrely, the best hope is similar in chemical terms to laundry detergent.
continually creating new swaths of space and time, while dark matter appears to be holding all the galaxies together. No wonder
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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