[UCANSEE2]

The vast majority of space is plasma

Something that our ancestors called the 'aether'.

Scientists proclaimed it didn't exist, now, it is known as 'dark matter' and 'dark energy'.

They say the reason is they can't account for all the matter needed for our Universe to 'exist'.

Seems to me the real problem is they can't SEE all the matter. We are just now starting to recognize that it is possible many stars have planets, maybe all of them. And asteroid belts, and rings around planets.

Maybe there's just a lot of matter there, and we just can't see it.

How long did it take us to find out that Saturn wasn't the only planet in our solar system with rings ?

[Dead Corpse]

Space/time isn't linear. Our perception of it is. This could create all kinds of interesting 4D phenomena that would screw up observational data. Think of a cluster of galaxies completely knotting the local gravity to a point where anyone trying to observe light "through" the cluster would actually end up looking at something 90 degrees to your line of sight...

Couple that with your "dark" matter, virtual photon/particle pairs, and the Gods alone know what else... We have no real clue what the Universe looks like or what it may be doing while we sleep.

My bets on a re-cyclic Universe that is neither expanding, nor contracting, but is simply in motion constantly.