From: Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> the mention of dark matter made me wonder what it is there for---
>
It 'isn't there'. It's a theory/hypothesis. No one has ever seen any, found
any, etc. It has been invented to explain observational data - i.e. missing
mass. The observational data is questionable.
>did
> anyone read a story by sf writer Stephen Baxter about some critturs who
> lived in the dark stuff or were made of it or something? And then I
> started thinking about our DNA--it is true that about 95% of it it of
> unknown function? And now I remember hyperspace theories and superstrings
> and all the alternate/parallel universe stuff---which according to the
> book by Prof Michio Kako (apols for spelling) probably exists but the
> energy required to enter one of those other universes has been calculated
> to be colossal, way beyond us. So are we living in a tiny subset of
> reality? What is going on in all that redundant DNA? Any thoughts,
> anyone?
>
Just because we don't know what 95% of our DNA does, doesn't mean it is
redundant. Nature is not profligate in that way. There is a function(s) for it,
it's just that we haven't been clever enough to work it out yet.
Dr David J Plews
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