science to fantasy – This is the place where we can give vent to our imaginations. Like the mythologies of our ancestors, we create narratives to move from what little we know to all that we don’t know.

“Ninety percent of the magic comes from knowing just one extra fact. ” – Terry Pratchett According to most estimates, there are about one million physicists in the world.

A large number of them, generously more than half, are theoretical physicists who actually understand the general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, the Higgs boson particle, and the Standard Model of particle physics. Still very few people know what to look for when they look for dark matter.

Nevertheless, a small section of the general readership continues to be attracted to these ideas. We read last week about what a breakthrough could be toward finding evidence of dark matter (colloquially, “the thing that makes gravity work”), with the same breath that, in 2012, the God particle (Higgs boson) was finally detected by the Large Hadron Collider.