Dark Matter

The Bible gives us many clues that MOST of the universe around us is currently hidden from our view. It's there...we just can't see it.

A few passages come to mind. The first one is from Ephesians that tells us our battle isn't against flesh and blood...but with the unseen evil forces and leaders of darkness.

Another really cool passage is from 2 Kings. Elisha prayed that the Lord would open the eyes of Elisha's servant...and when he did he could see into another dimension...and saw they were surrounded by the Lord's army sitting on horses and chariots. But they were not visible to anyone else.

The article below is interesting for a few reasons; first it has a Minnesota connection. And second....because scientists believe they are on the verge of discovering that there is 10 times more "stuff" in the universe than we can actually see.

It's appropriately called, "dark matter."

In early December, the Cold Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment located in the deep Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota leaked a tantalizing hint that they may have discovered something remarkable. The experiment is designed to directly detect new elementary particles that might make up the dark matter known to dominate our own Milky Way galaxy, all galaxies, and indeed all mass in the universe—so news of a possible breakthrough was thrilling.

Beginning in the 1970s, evidence began to accumulate that there was much more mass out there than meets the eye. Scientists, mostly by observing the speed of rotation of our galaxy, estimated that there was perhaps 10 times as much dark matter as visible material.

Theorists who had proposed the existence of such particles realized that they could have been produced during the earliest moments of the fiery Big Bang in numbers that could account for the inferred abundance of dark matter today. Moreover, these new particles would have exactly the properties needed for such material. They would interact so weakly with normal matter that they could go through the Earth without a single interaction.

Read it here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610113807816216.html

"And knowledge shall increase....." says that book of Daniel about the Last Days.