PRIDE CHEKERA"but the universe is vaster than anything else in the
universe...there is a lot in the universe to talk about relative to
anything else in the universe." He later said that, "we don't know
what it is (dark matter and dark energy), we may call it Fred and
Wilmer." Then at last he said, "we don't know what we don't
know and this leaves me awake at night."
From these enriched words, sipping with the grandeur of the
cosmos, at some moments, we seem to be ‘Plato's cavemen’. As
l discussed about reality in the part of quantum mechanics and
reality, what we perceive is a mere projection of reality, it is not
the objective reality of things, thus that small cerebral pocket of
ours is so feeble that much around us had bamboozled our minds
to the extremes of our mental horizon.
In astrophysics, dark matter and dark energy are still unknown
entities; we don't know their origin, but we only have a mere
glimpse of them. It's something intriguing to me as an
astrophysics enthusiast, whenever we point our telescopes into
space, we are searching for the universe, whenever we collide
particles in particle accelerators we are searching for the
fundamental microcosm, which when architectured gives us a
seemingly materialistic world.
We search for right answers to the correct questions we put
forward. For example, physicists had been intrigued: Why the
universe is so uniform and almost flat on large cosmic scales?
Then, within this quest, working towards the answer, in 1979,