In defining the word dark as a generalization in the use of dark matter and dark energy, I am working with the idea of dark data. Dark data is missing data that we don’t know anything about but we use some concept in its place. The concept is treated a single idea even though…
In my previous post, I lightly questioned the invocation of dark matter and dark energy to augment measured observations that otherwise cannot account for the motion of galaxies or the expansion of the universe. We might be better served by a science that simply says that there are observations that have no scientific explanation. This…
In an earlier article I was thinking about the meaning of nothingness that separates the particles inside an atom or that separates celestial bodies. It occurs to me now that maybe they may not be the same kind of nothingness. Thinking about nothingness turns it into something and that makes possible the idea that that…
After viewing If the moon were only one pixel, the tediously accurate scale model of the solar system, I was immediately captivated by the point the author was making. That point is that there is a lot of emptiness in space. There is nothing new about this. Obviously the planets are far apart and…
Hypothesis Discovery 