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| Swell by Anthony McCall. Commissioned by AV Festival 2006. |
In physics, the darkness is the most illuminating place to look, if you want to understand the Universe right now. This year, Planck told us that 26.8% of all matter is dark. Thanks to the earlier work of Brian Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter and Eric Riess, cosmologists also have to deal with the fact that the Universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate, and that the energy responsible for that - dark energy - accounts for 68.3% of all energy.
So we now know that nearly 96% of the Universe is dark. It is there; but invisible.
But what this means is that we live in some of the most exciting times imaginable.
Because we live in a Universe that is to a large extent unknown to science, and therefore the systems that govern all but 4% of the Universe are yet to be discovered.
"And, everything is possible again."
I'll be taking that thought into 2014.
Honor Harger
31 December 2013
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