The Dark Force of the Universal Construct

Last night I watched a special on Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and the inability of science to see it, even though they know it’s there. Watching that show made me think of the Force in the Star Wars films, and at times made me think that sometimes the scientists were, in a way, looking for God.

Dark Matter is the force that binds the universe together (I’ve written about it before), and Dark Energy is the force that drives it apart. Science believes these Dark Forces (”dark” in this context, meaning without light, not evil) have been in existence since the Big Bang, and believe that Dark Matter began binding matter together to form galaxies, stars and planets some 5 billion years later. Some time after that, Dark Energy began the process of forcing everything away from one another, so that now we are hurtling through space toward the nothing.

Science is racing to capture a Dark Matter particle. Once they do, what will they find? And what if they find a way to tap into it, what if they find that it has something to say? Of course everything with me is fodder for fiction, and I can’t help but think it would be a great story if someone wrote that.

Furthermore, if Dark Energy is the force that is causing everything to expand, where is the center? From where are we hurtling from? Wouldn’t there have to be a centralized location for the expansion? And if so, what resides there?

The infinite has always been one of those things that’s fascinated me. It’s one of those things that I can’t really wrap my mind around. But then, I also believe that the framework of our minds isn’t capable of realizing the infinite. I’ve tried to contemplate it, and whenever I spent any amount of time meditating on it I could actually feel reality slip around me. I could feel my mind lose its footing. Space, as an entity, being infinite, is the biggest conundrum there is. Especially when you consider that our entire galaxy could be an infinitesimal atom, integral in the construct of something else entirely, and that something else could also be a simple atom, and so on and so on, to the infinite. That story’s been done before, but it’s still an amazing thought, for me.

And what if Dark Energy is sentient? Suppose when we do find a way to tap into it we find that it is the God we’ve always been searching for? I imagine, in a very Douglas Adams frame of mind, that its first words will be something like, “Boy, you guys are in trouble.”

What do you think the binding force of the universe might say to us?