Tweet from Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates)

[Prashant Kumar]

Well it's literally dark, in that it doesn't emit radiation.

The 15% does emit radiation, so it is "light". I always hate pseudo
profundities of this form.

Btw there's murmurs from some corners (and I neither endorse nor represent
such views) that dark matter isn't really matter, just a failure of certain
cosmological theories at extreme distance scales. Think about the world
of a tiny spider; his experience of the laws of physics is much different
from yours - he can walk on water! The idea is that at intergalactic scales
some unknown laws of physics dominate. Personally I don't buy it, but you
can't deny its beauty.

P.

On Thursday, March 21, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> And "dark matter" isn't really dark, just unknown and mostly invisible.
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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'scuffling at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
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>> I don't see her suggesting that the "light" is better so much as that we
>> are rarer than we knew, and that is "sobering."
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>>
>> Yours truly,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'igrlivingston at gmail.com');>
>> > wrote:
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>>> Or is that a prejudicial statement, based in our perceptions of light
>>> and dark? Maybe we are really agents of darkness....
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'markekohut at yahoo.com');>
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> *Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates<https://twitter.com/joycecaroloates>
>>>> )*
>>>> 3/20/13, 12:21 PM<https://twitter.com/joycecaroloates/status/314411384404332545>
>>>> Sobering to think that all but a minuscule fraction of the universe is
>>>> NOT "dark matter"--we represent the "light."
>>>>
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