The first thing that came into my mind this morning was Dark Matter. I need to get out more. I mean, really. Who is even bothered? 😕

Why do we need to think about intangible stuff like dark matter? We have physical lives. We live on a solid planet. We sense tangible things, lead ordinary lives and eventually perish. What good does striving to know such abstract things do for us?

To be honest, I don’t know. I mean, things that advance our spirituality, our sense of meaning and purpose, I get. That is abstract thinking with an end goal. But spending so much time wrestling with things that seem to have no purpose, I don’t understand. Still, I am bound by this perpetual curiosity to fathom them and I’m not sure I know why.

A map of some dark matter. They are the black bits.