Dark Matter

30% of the universe is apparently 'dark matter' - let me know if you find any.

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emdot says:

i think there is some under my refrigerator.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

just as I suspected - we've been looking for it in all the wrong places
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Peter Barker says:

I thought there was some in my refrigerator, but every time I open the door the light comes on so I'm not sure.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

thermophle says:

Really great shot - I like the light and shadows effect. And that dark matter text is on the page!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Peter Barker says:

Lovely composition, lighting and control of depth of field.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

thanks for the comments, and don't stop looking - its out there somewhere...

emdot, pebar: i think you are on to something - this must be why fridges exert such a strong attractive force
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Yer Sister says:

I do know that the gravity is much stronger directly under my bed. Could be there is some dark matter there.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

ojaipatrick says:

Ive heard of that, aliitle too scientific for me to fully understand though, cool pic!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

book M [deleted] says:

let x=x, a short defined horizon of curling pages, crispy paper!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Space Ritual says:

i think there is some in my dryer.
It acts like some sort of event horizon.The energy causes my socks to spin so fast that instead of turning into a binary pair of pulsar socks it just clean sucks it into the other side leaving me...alas...with one sock...and a gamma ray burst
but then....does it really anti-matter anyway ?
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

space- i recommend sunglasses for the GRBs
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ Becky ♥ says:

ha ha re: all the above.

******
dark matter . . .??? i try not to think about it.
You know . . .
Always Look On The Bright Side of Life,
ta dum ta dum de dum de dum
;-)
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

!efatima says:

wowwwwww... i love it sooo much. the light, the angle... everything about it.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Joseph Robertson says:

Nice. Took me a second to spot the corresponding text. Must've been a hardcover with a fairly decent binding, no? Paperbacks just don't open like that... (gah-- the bookbinder in me won't shut up)
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

JR- yes, a hardcover. Don't some paperbacks have sewn signatures also?
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

PuffinArt says:

Great lighting!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

musicorso says:

I found some source of dark matter, but it should not be publicly exposed... keep it secret: some somber souls provide it galore!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Michael™ says:

I thought I had left comments on this right after I got your card, but it appears I was mistaken. This is a fantastic shot and I very much appreciate having a hard copy of it!
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

.sashi says:

I'm not sure what you mean by signature, but yes paperbacks were sewn (often both sewn and glued). Judging from my bookshelves, the practice disappeared earlier in Anglo-Saxon publishing than here in France. Some publishers here still sew the "cahiers" together. All the paperbacks in my buddy icon were sewn.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

sashiman- une 'signature' est la meme chose qu'un cahier.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

mariekefotografeert says:

I love books and Pictures. So this is a fave.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

thanks marie!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

kleefunkelchen says:

hi dark matter.. thats a great macro of a book.. i like it very much..and i've chosen it for my blog. for sure i've mentioned your name and linked the pic with your photostream.. my blog's name is www.abookwormslife.com
i hope, that's ok for you :)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

thanks for letting me know, kleefunkelchen. i don't read german, so i'm curious what this photo could possibly have to do with unesco ;-)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

kleefunkelchen says:

it has to do with the unseco because its a book and the unesco originated the worldwide day of the book which is dated on 23rd april.. i needed a good pic of an book for my blog to write about this day and yours was the best ;-)
thanks again :)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

redkatsnake says:

very clever +)
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

ToniVC says:

Thank you for posting this shot in the Top 10 Interestingness Pool!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Urban Gazelle says:

speechless...
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

thru jens eyes says:

really pretty! love the warm lighting and the shadows. books make great photos :)

oh and btw...i think i found some dm in my fridge today in a little container w/some crinkly foil precariously wrapped around it. i was afraid of it...i might have seen an eyeball...or maybe it was a foot?!
either way....i was scared.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

Yes, books are great for all sorts of things.

Perhaps your dark matter escaped from here?
www.opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6037
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

thru jens eyes says:

such amazingly interesting and mind-boggling stuff! i really wish i understood it all better, because it's soo fascinating!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

darkmatter says:

its much less confusing than f-stops and bokeh!

here's the 10-second story of dark matter:
- a third of the universe is made of it, but there's hardly any on earth,
- its not really dark, its transparent (and thus invisible),
- we know what it isn't (atoms) but not what it is.

ok, now you're ready for the 60-second version:
www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000451
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

thru jens eyes says:

hey....thanks for that! you made it much less "gray" and a little more black and white for me :)
how super interesting!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

random letters says:

Great photo! Very striking. I wanted to let you know that I've put this photo in a post on our library blog - blog.uwgb.edu/library/?p=313

I assume this is all right because of the Creative Commons license, but please let me know if I've overstepped! Thanks so much!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

HierbaMustiA says:

Great picture and concept (:
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Daniela Giraldez says:

great shoot!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

Leodileo says:

You make the 70% left very well visible.
Great sépia here.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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