Some universal notes...

Being an avid reader of all matters Universal my eye fell on an interesting bit about ‘Where is the missing matter of the Universe’. Bearing in mind that the matter we all are made of, sun, planets, comets, stars, us only comprised some 5%. The rest is dark matter and dark energy. The word dark here implying it is there but we cannot see it. Now, bearing in mind that what we can see shows all is in motion. The whole lot is moving but we do not know whereto. There is something called the Great Attractor, a conglomerate of massive galaxies attracting our galaxy and all things close by. But now even that is attracted by something larger again! Scientists have termed this ‘Dark Flow’. In Quora it said ‘Dark flow is an unexpected large-scale movement of galaxies across the universe, and we thought that our Milky Way, together with other local galaxies, is flowing towards the Great Attractor, a dense conglomeration of many galaxies’. But also ‘It turns out that behind the Great Attractor lies a Shapley supercluster of more than 8,000 galaxies, which is even more massive and pulls the Great Attractor and us, along with other local galaxies.

Between are dense gas clouds containing matter that even dwarfs our galaxy. If you would be able to see that if you were a giant of galactic immensity you might be able to see it all connected like a web. Perhaps very like what we see looking at an enlarged structure of our brain and its neuron linkages. The central point being the galactic clusters. It all keeps constantly changing. We discover new things about our Universe every day. The Universe is also much bigger than we first thought, it could well be infinite in size. I have thought also that the old Hindu faith which had an interesting view of what and who we are, could be right. Meaning the Universe is not really a collection of matter, it is something. That something could even be the brain of a cow or the hair on a dog’s back. It is all a matter of size. An ant occasionally knows a shadow coming down just before it gets stamped on. It would never know why. It is not aware of the elephant. What would we see if a human grew to the size of a galaxy? How would it see the solar system? A grain? Or even bigger, how would it see a whole galaxy? And so on.

All rather interesting, the problem is we might never know. Or if there is something like an afterlife in a place named Nirvana we might know then. The rest of the problem is then we cannot tell anyone else who still lives on Earth. Up to then it’s just guesswork albeit with some scientific facts and work thrown in. It doesn’t matter all that much because even if we find some of the answers there is scant we can do about it. In the meantime it provides some interesting jobs!