Note To Scientists:...

PLEASE try to be a bit more careful when it comes to this whole business of Paradigm Shifting!

Try to think things through before you throw the old paradigm into the dumpster, the dust bin, or the universal tip. Maybe we should keep the old paradigm around on retainer or something. Perhaps we could sort of treat the Old Paradigm like a soldier returning from the Iraq War and let him fester a while in sub-standard health care facilities - an Old Paradigms' Home - until such time as we move them on to Arlington.

This is all due to Dark Matter.
We see: Dr. Pamela Gray in  
Star Stryder  
http://www.starstryder.com/2008/01/30/dark-energy-is-real/  

"... If astronomers can’t convince random physicists (who will admit they haven’t read any of the findings in the past couple years) that Dark Energy is real, how can we convince the general population. Admittedly, dark energy is something that we can’t see, can’t taste, can’t touch, can’t measure directly, and can’t even precisely mathematically describe. This makes it somewhat hard to sell as real (although it doesn’t appear to have been to hard a sell for the boogie monster, tooth fairy, and snow yeti). So, this raises the question, how can we know Dark Energy exists?"

All I can say is that if you had not so thoroughly destroyed the concept of the Aether ( or ether - an all encompassing medium in which all the universe floats ) this would not be so difficult. The aether was not the exact same concept, but when you reach the point where Dark Matter, whose existence we cannot directly demonstrate, is calculated to compose 75% to 95% the mass of the universe, it's beginning to look like a duck and sound like a duck...and affect the photon like a duck. Or merganser. Or turkey buzzards.

O.K. I know I've said it before.

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