Anthology of Ideas » dark matter http://anthologyoi.com Anthology of Ideas is an archive of thoughts and form. Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:16:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Entertaining speech on dark matter from Yearly Kos Convention http://anthologyoi.com/blogish/asides/entertaining-speech-on-dark-matter-from-yearly-kos-convention.html http://anthologyoi.com/blogish/asides/entertaining-speech-on-dark-matter-from-yearly-kos-convention.html#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:25:45 +0000 aaron http://anthologyoi.com/blogish/asides/entertaining-speech-on-dark-matter-from-yearly-kos-convention.html How can you beat a line like: The good news is we understand a lot about the universe; the bad news is it makes no sense.

I used the mysterious beauty of dark matter and dark energy as an excuse to make some didactic points about science and rationality and politics. (If I weren’t an atheist, I would have made a good preacher.)

hat tip: cosmicvariance

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