Something About Nothing

A dark light shines . . . on a deep subject– We know almost nothing about ‘what’s out there.’ You might say that most of us are in the dark about what’s in the firmament. That’s because so little is known about the darkness. But we’re told by those who are informed that there’s lots of stuff in the darkness that can’t quite be discerned. Presumably, the darkness is full of matter and energy, dark matter and dark energy. Moreover, the quantity of these substances is far greater than that of the known substances. In fact, astrophysicists believe that more than 95 percent of the universe of galaxies is comprised of these mysterious dark essences . . . We learn that astrophysicists suspect the recently discovered dark matter contains particles of a yet-to-be-known nature, while they think that dark energy is a force that counteracts gravity and accelerates the flight of cosmic bodies into space. –Or, maybe, something else. What else? Suppose, for instance, dark energy is an essence that is more than a force. What more? Possibly, something remarkable that remains to be seen– . . . When we, who are less informed, look out at the skies above us, we see celestial bodies floating around and about in a lot of what seems to be empty space. But what do we know? In fact, most of us refer to everything in space that doesn’t shine or show itself as ‘nothing.’ Now we have to wonder about this other stuff that’s ‘all over the place’ cluttering the canopy above and around us; stuff we can’t see, and used to think was nothing. Now we’re learning how to look at space in a new way, that is, with vision more so than by sight. With all the recent research into dark matter and dark energy (not to mention black holes), it makes us wonder just what ‘nothing’ is. For sure, it’s not as simple as it used to be to just dismiss ‘nothing’ as–nothing. Rather than dismissing space as nothing, we are becoming compelled to look at nothing as a something that is unknown. –Come to think of it, Isn't that the way with creation? . . . to make something out of nothing . . . As inquisitive people might say about this curiosity, maybe there’s more to this dark stuff than meets the eye. So–suppose there is something to this nothing? And it’s a remarkable something. Hidden in plain sight . . .