OWNING SPACE

Dark matter is a cloud that surrounds us. It flies through us, through solid walls, through the Earth. It’s like the wind. A ghost.

-Alan Duffy, astronomer, Swinburne University.

Dark matter is the invisible glue that holds stars together inside a galaxy. The bulk of the matter in the universe — about 96% — is thought to be dark matter, with ordinary matter — the visible stuff that makes up stars, planets and people — a mere 4%.

Even now, cosmologists do not know what dark matter is. It was initially called “missing matter” because they could not find it in their direct observations of the universe.

Dark matter does not emit, absorb or reflect light and does not interact with any known particles. Dark matter is only evident through its gravitational effect.

Let me use dark matter as a metaphor. Like dark matter in the universe, the invisible preparation you do owning space as an actor or a director is only evident through its gravitational or grounding effect on the scene.

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