Brain Fertilizer

I've been down on Dark Matter recently, making fun of it in a discussion with Jay and Andy over at Zombyboy's.

Well, I was wrong. Sort of:

Dark Matter is just non-lumenescent matter. There is some semi-ambiguous evidence for its existence in the form of gravitational influence...which sounds pretty significant. Except that there are several other theories that explain the vector anomolies just as well.

But what I was remembering as absolutely ridiculous is a closely related concept called Dark Energy You might understand why I used the wrong term, since they are so similar in nomenclature.

Anyway, read the whole thing for yourself, and see if you can suppress the chuckles when they start saying things like, "No evidence of quintessence is yet available, but it cannot be ruled out."

Yeah, real rigorous burden of proof, there.