How many times have you heard, “The best things in life aren’t things”? What if I told you that things aren’t even things at all?
According to NASA, “things” as we know them constitute only a tiny fraction of what exists in the universe– roughly 0.4%. And the rest?
3.6% is intergalactic gas, meaning ten times the mass of all the stars, planets, space rocks and UFOs in the universe is floating around uncommitted, as it were.
The remaining 96%? That’s where it gets really weird.
22% is ‘dark matter’. Not antimatter, the kind you find on every space opera, but ‘dark’ matter. Stuff we can’t see, touch, smell, hear, or measure in any way, but we know it’s there because we can observe its gravitational effects.
And if that weren’t bad enough, the remaining 74% is ‘dark energy’, a force that seems to repel gravity. It is responsible for the continuing (and accelerating) expansion of the universe.
So after you’ve wrapped your head around the truly mind-boggling magnitude of the universe, consider that it’s a minuscule fraction of what’s actually out there, and most of that we know absolutely nothing about.
It puts those Jimmy Choo pumps into perspective, doesn’t it?