a case of neato bandito

It never fails that things I want to write about always come to me when I am the most unable to write about them. The drive home from my parents house yesterday afternoon was no different. But I still plan to write what I started thinking about writing.

But this is one of those things that needs more time than the occasional draft of a poem or whatnot, so today I've been delving into the wonderful world of Wikipedia for a little more understanding of what it is my brain is trying to think up....sometimes I FEEL information that seem very real and retrievable, but my brain can't interpret them as anything other than random ideas of the unconscious....that's my hypothesis for now, at least. BUT, in my digging about on wiki today I came across something that made my day!....DOCUMENTED SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY for something I dreamt about a while back. Something that I thought was just fantasy creation in my dream world--and it was a dream I blogged about. That is so dang COOL [to me] I can't even begin to describe my glee.

Anyway, here is the blog (the part in reference is the ocean I swam in)

Sci-Fi Dream

And HERE is what I accidentally came upon on Wikipedia. I've included an excerpt below:

In astronomy and cosmology, dark fluid is an alternative theory to both dark matter and dark energy and attempts to explain both phenomena in a single framework...

In the traditional approach to modeling effects of gravity, general relativity is assumed to be valid at cosmological scales as well as in the solar system where its predictions have been more accurately tested. Not changing the rules of gravity, however, implies the presence of dark matter and dark energy in parts of the universe where the curvature of the space-time manifold is far less than that of in the solar system. It is phenomenologically possible to alter the equations of gravity in regions of low space-time curvature such that the dynamics of the space-time causes what we assign to the presence of dark matter and dark energy.^[2] Dark fluid even goes one step beyond the standpoint of the generally covariant modified theories of gravity. It hypothesizes that the fabric of space acts much like a fluid. So dark fluid currently provides a general and powerful model for altering the dynamics of the space-time manifold. In this theory, space would flow, coagulate, compress, or expand just like any other fluid..."


If my father were alive I probably would have known about this stuff before because he was completely obsessed (in a good way) with Astronomy...and was, in fact, described as a scientist. So maybe it's folded away in my mind because this kind of stuff can be passed down in genes of the psyche. Perhaps they are gifts from beyond. Regardless. This made my day. I am glad for however it arrived in my world.

(another thing that made my day is discovering I can create a "book"  from Wikipedia articles I'm reading, then save it as a PDF and print it all in one go. that is really just fantastic.)