The furthest stretches of the universe have been a topic of discussion among mainstream scientists recently.  The known physical "luminous" universe is thought to be circumscribed by an outer more remote portion which is thought to have very strange qualities.

The outer realm of the universe is perported to contain a unique quality of matter known as Dark Matter.  The substance of which this hypothetical material is comprised has been continuously up for debate.

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are thought to dominate dark matter, but this hypothesis is receiving pressure from some new ideas about extra-cosmic space.  

Scientists believe that Dark Matter must exhist because of the way "the motion of galaxies and galactic clusters indicate a gravitational influence of something other than what we can see (i.e. luminous matter), but dark matter does not interact via the electromagnetic force, making it a particularly difficult entity to study."

All this sounds quite abstract and esoteric for main stream science.  What an amazing admission by the scientific community, that there "must" be "something" interacting with our cosmos from beyond it's stretches. 

Or course, we as humans are capable of such amazing comprehension, that we can percieve a distant truth without yet understanding the magnitude of it. Because what lies beyond the expanse of time, beyond measurable distances directly out into space, is of course ourselves.  We are drawn to ourselves as we seek to know ourselves.

What will we discover about the world beyond our world?

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