Quotes About Mystery

And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.

What we know is that the matter we have come to love in the universe—the stuff of stars, planets, and life—is only a light frosting on the cosmic cake, modest buoys afloat in a vast cosmic ocean of something that looks like nothing.

If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don't know.

I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien.

While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I know why. At one time or another every one of us has looked up at the night sky and wondered: What does it all mean? How does it all work? And, what is my place in the universe?

dark matter is our frenemy.

Gravity is a marvelous force, but a troubling one.

What our phrenological exam says is that we understand how the universe behaved, but that most of the universe is made of stuff about which we are clueless. Our profound areas of ignorance notwithstanding, today, as never before, cosmology has an anchor, because the CMB reveals the portal through which we all walked. It's a point where interesting physics happened, and where we learned about the universe before and after its light was set free.

So what is the stuff? Nobody knows. The closest anybody has come is to presume dark energy is a quantum effect—where the vacuum of space, instead of being empty, actually seethes with particles and their antimatter counterparts. They pop in and out of existence in pairs, and don't last long enough to be measured.

So dark matter is our frenemy. We have no clue what it is. It's kind of annoying. But we desperately need it in our calculations to arrive at an accurate description of the universe. Scientists are generally uncomfortable whenever we must base our calculations on concepts we don't understand, but we'll do it if we have to. And dark matter is not our first rodeo.

Are we missing some basic pieces of the universe that once were? What part of the cosmic history book has been marked access denied? What remains absent from out theories and equations that ought to be there, leaving us groping for answers we may never find?

As we've known from the beginning, dark matter does, indeed, exert gravity, to which ordinary matter responds. But that's it. After all these years, we haven't discovered it doing anything else.

the universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

If the universe is anything, it should be fun.

?wiat nie ma obowi?zku by? dla ciebie zrozumia?ym.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

And just when you'd think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.

The right lifestyle is something that is worn, not discussed. Money, fame, and looks, though helpful, are not required. It is, rather, something that screams: Ladies, abandon your boring, mundane, unfulfilled lives and step into my exciting world, full of interesting people, new experiences, good times, easy living, and dreams fulfilled.

But somewhere, there is a skeleton. And that skeleton has a penis. And it will fuck your life.

Project Hollywood had reached a new nadir. MYSTERY:

Wearing a leather vest and an Indiana Jones hat, Steve P. was equal parts Hell's Angel and Native American shaman. Rasputin was a strip club bouncer with mutton-chop sideburns who looked like a steroid-jacked Wolverine.

Elämä oli hänen ja Jumalan välinen sisäpiirivitsi.

Mrs. Rahman. It was impossible to know whether Mokta