Tweet from Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates)

[Markekohut]

On earlier tweets, she had written she was reading a cosmologist on what we know of the universe. This was the novelist's working generality she got from it. 

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On Mar 20, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>>> 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."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yours truly,
>>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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> wrote:
>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 	Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates)
>>>>>> 3/20/13, 12:21 PM
>>>>>> Sobering to think that all but a minuscule fraction of the universe is NOT "dark matter"--we represent the "light."
>>>>>>   
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>>>>>> 
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