Dark Matter (and by default, Dark Energy) have appeared on the scientific scene relatively recently, and these Dark Materials are quite unique in the timeframe of this exploratory era. If we consider science to have begun to dig deep into the Universe around the age of Socrates, that's only 2,500 years ago. As exponential curves tend to follow a trend, the last few hundred years has seen the steepest climb in knowledge-gathering, spearheaded at the start of the last century by Einstein and those around him at the time.
The Universe is estimated to be 13 to 14 billion years old, so the disparity between a few thousand years and so many billion should illuminate the quantum nature of our personal time frame. Our size, in relative terms, is also much closer to quantum elements than to the bigger picture we now see thanks to Hubble-like technology. We tend to think of ourselves as the centre of the Universe in psychological terms even if we've outgrown the physical analogy. Intelligent creatures busily ferreting out the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything while all the space around us appears to be empty.
Empty it was, to all intents and purposes, until Dark Matter came along. Hinting at itself through lensing techniques and laying claim to a vast percentage of the Universe, but refusing to reveal its true nature, you'll find through Google that Dark Matter wasn't discovered by anyone, it's "purely theoretical." Unlike Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Planck's Constant, Bohr's Atom and Einstein's Relativity, Dark Matter is an entity in its own right that not only refuses to be identified, but refuses to allow anyone to claim its identity, either.
If science sits up and takes notice of the bald facts beyond the surface equations, it'll find itself looking in the right places. At the moment, the maths is driving money into huge particle experiments that are drawing blanks left right and centre.
All you need to do, if you're a scientist, is meditate. Seriously meditate. I mean, what harm can it do, to give yourself some quiet time away from the damn figures and drift into the landscape of your sub-subconscious mind? You have the keys, the Universe gave them to you. All the necessary tools are there at your disposal. You'll need the math to make sense of what you find out there. But relying on formulas to point the way is like looking for water with a compass.
All you need to do, if you're a scientist, is meditate. Seriously meditate. I mean, what harm can it do, to give yourself some quiet time away from the damn figures and drift into the landscape of your sub-subconscious mind? You have the keys, the Universe gave them to you. All the necessary tools are there at your disposal. You'll need the math to make sense of what you find out there. But relying on formulas to point the way is like looking for water with a compass.
Stop searching notepads for nourishment. You want to find Dark Matter and learn what secrets it holds? They won't be given lightly. There in the outer reaches of the Universe lie the gems of information we all want to be found. There's a possibility it will save the Earth from an unfortunate but apparently inevitable doom. Want to escape Fermi's Paradox? Maybe even be among the first civilizations to do it? Look to Stargate. All the Ancient races have just one thing in common. Except the ones who stole, and claimed themselves to be gods. The Goa'uld missed out on the one thing advancement shares with the advanced.
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