Sealion II

Or maybe it has misplaced us.

Tonight I went to a lecture on dark matter and dark energy, which are, apparently, the major constituents of the Universe. Their interaction with our kind of matter is apparently purely gravitational; since they don't interact with the strong force, weak force, or electromagnetic force, we can't see them--hence, they are dark.

(Note that this means that we (human beings) are not dark matter--we aren't tremendous fonts of energy, but we do a) interact with other "light" (i.e., visible) matter and b) emit electromagnetic radition. So we are starstuff in more ways than one.)

Anyway. My fellow dark-matter investigator and I agreed that the more we heard about it the less easy it was to believe in (which is not to say the evidence was faulty, or even unconvincing; just that everything we learned made it less and less intuitive. The search for dark matter: it's like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there!)

And the presenter left unanswered our burning question: How does this affect our star charts? Surely astrology must have taken note of the influence of dark matter on our lives by now! (Perhaps this explains why I totally fail to match my rising sign in "face that I present to the world" personality?)