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Article: Filling in the gaps. (unseen mysteries in science, psychology and religion)(Column)
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- Commonweal
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- March 24, 1995
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Where oh where is the missing 90 percent of the cosmos? Frantic scientists search in vain for the invisible "dark matter" of the universe. Theoretically, the missing matter ought to exist somewhere, but how? The most recent excitement comes from new findings that suggest the universe's omnipresent but invisible neutrinos may possess mass after all; this helps resolve a bit more of the puzzle.
As an ardent advocate of science, I follow these cosmological debates and indulge in speculation over how the visible relates to the invisible universe. I also notice that I have no trouble giving instant assent to accounts of all sorts of unseen mysterious events like ...