contemplating dark matter and energy

"MissV" wrote in message
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Joe Zorzin wrote:
A few centuries ago, mankind knew nothing about many types of matter
and
energy which we now understand, and which have given us great powers,
for
good or bad.

So, at this time we know very little about dark matter and energy and
models
about them are necessarily simple- but, isn't it likely that they are
actually very complex in structure and that when we do understand
them
better we'll gain immense new powers?

I should think science fiction writers could have a field day
speculating on
this- are they doing so? I haven't read sci fi in decades so I don't
know
what the best are doing.

Just fantasizing, but I can imagine future being very impacted by
better
understand of this stuff and not just the science of astronomy.

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Joe Zorzin

I'm a SciFi writer and I have not yet decided if I will include
theories of dark matter/energy yet. I did read a nice trilogy a couple
of years ago called, "Dark Matters". It is within the Star Trek Voyager
series. I can't say that I really agreed with it, I don't, but it was
the first that I had seen anyone writing about, what we really were not
yet talking about. I find the whole subject fascinating, and certainly
see the futuristic ideas of embracing they power held within dark
energy.
Miss V


i'd say that you'd be pretty safe writing about dark matter. as far as dark
energy goes, it is still really in the "ether" stage of it's theoretical
life.