Warning – the below is very geeky!

You see, I’m a geek at heart – and I make no attempt at hiding it…

The things that make me laugh, are [url=http://xkcd.com/242/]geeky things[/url]…

The things that fill me with awe – geeky…

The things that make me think – geeky…

So anyway, tonight I was doing some [url=http://www.scitechdaily.com/]geek reading[/url] and I hit something that made me really stop and think…

you see, being the geek that I am, I love astrophysics. I love the way its full of observations that people spend their lives trying to prove with theoretical hypotheses. Its completely backwards to the majority of sciences…

Anyway, tonights article on [url=http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/12/21/2124258.htm?site=science&topic=latest]dark energy[/url] made me realise one of the things I love about my job…

Today I had rumours of issues… enough rumours from enough different places to suggest they added up to more than rumours… but I had no firm examples. So sure enough today was what I have now nicknamed an astrophysics day…

[i]”hunting for theoretical hypotheses to fit the available anecdotal observations in the absence of firm fact”[/i]

So anyway, this little bouncy ball was my experimental object of mass as I tried to get my head around the concept of not needing dark matter in the universe…

I’m pretty excited about the idea of not needing dark matter… it always felt wrong to me to invent a new invisible object with no mass or radiation just because you needed it to fix some inconsistencies in the universe.

Hmmm – geeky.