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Issue No. 1
Scientists
Seek Dark Matter
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Astronomers say dark matter exists. They base this assertion on their
best guesses and circumstantial evidence. Scientists say such matter consists
of an as yet undiscovered elementary particle… - Scientific American The woman says that dark
matter exists, its validity implied by
disappearance— postmen whisked from
their routes, babies scooted out of the mall. She asserts that such matter thrives
in the dull hours when tenderness is
planets away, in another atmosphere, when her
telephone lies soundless in its silver
cradle, charging itself for a future she cannot
imagine, when lust is an unsolicited call
from the void, when desire, neither
proton nor neutron, nor anything once made
of them, fills the wells of silence. Humans, she says, are
biochemical soup, heavy on endorphins. In her dark world, the evidence for romance and its
sweet carnal murmur is manifest when love
disappears into the far parts of
unlit space, sinks below the event horizon
where it exists as silent energy,
undiscovered particles, elementary matter mooring a woman to the dark. |