The Search For Dark Matter

The universe is still largely a mystery to scientists.
In the Seventies, astronomer Vera Rubin used her observations of the excessive speeds at which spiral galaxies rotate to conclude that a large proportion of matter in galaxies is hidden or ‘dark’.
Recent studies show that dark matter comprises 23 per cent of the matter in the universe.

Dark matter is not just out in space, but here – though in lesser quantities – on Earth too.
A million dark matter particles are passing every second through your little finger as you read these words.
It is called ‘dark’ because it doesn’t reflect light and is therefore invisible.
Nor does it have an electromagnetic field, which means it is almost impossible to detect by any conventional scientific measuring device.
Dark matter particles can pass easily through all solid objects.
Dark matter defies all our laws of physics.

The search for dark matter is one of the aims of the £6 billion Hadron Collider Project at Cern in Switzerland, and a major goal of other American and European projects.
A British attempt, which is costing £1 million a year to run, is located at a science facility 0.68 miles below ground at Boulby Mine on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.
There are perhaps about 300 scientists around the world attempting to detect dark matter and discover what it is made of.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is believed to have roughly 10 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter.
Dark matter appears to hold the galaxies together.
Will we ever be able to discover the secrets and real purpose of dark matter?
As dark matter continues to pass through our body and pass through our world, many people and some scientists now believe it may be a ‘Heavenly’ or ‘Holy’ presence – the way our ‘Creator’ is able to monitor every single action and every single thought of us all.

And then there is ‘dark energy’, which seems to account for accelerating expansion of the universe, and is now thought to take up as much as 73 per cent of matter in the universe.
We don’t know what dark energy is made of, nor do we know its real purpose.

“Do you know the laws of Heaven?” (God speaking to Job, The Bible)

Inflation Causes Great Social Suffering

It is time to counter-attack inflation now.
The lesson of the Seventies was that inflation caused great social suffering.
Inflation is particularly damaging to retired people on fixed incomes.
Inflation appears to be the soft way of adjusting an economy.
It is, in fact, a device for switching money from the poor and the elderly to debtors and the Government.
Whatever else may be said of inflation, it is a swindle that always hits the weakest people in society.

There have never been so many unemployed – and without hope of finding employment – since Margaret Thatcher was ranting and raving in Downing Street.
You don’t have to be an economist to understand the grand Cameron-Osborne plan.
Slash public sector spending and hope the private sector hands out jobs and creates wealth.
The plan is not working.
The public sector is being slashed while business struggles to survive.
The new jobs that are created are part-time or temporary.
Cameron wants working class men with families to deliver Pizza for a living.

There Is No Need To Wash Your Baby

In the first year of his life a baby will probably triple his weight, increase his length by half, double the size of his brain and create every nerve cell he will ever have.

Newborn babies do not have any established colonies of bacteria living on their skin.
These begin to grow within the first few hours.
As they have contact with other family members, good bacteria are transferred to their skin.
For this reason, its important that babies aren’t washed too often.
Exposing babies to bacteria early helps their immune system develop and reduces the risk of asthma, eczema and allergies.
Parents are advised not to wash their newborns with soap or use medicated wipes or lotions for the first six weeks.
Gentle bathing in plain water is fine.
But there is no need to wash your baby.

I Have No Trouble Meeting Expenses

I can resist almost anything, except temptation.

There are three things I always forget –
Dates, names, and the third….
I can’t remember.

I was asked by a friend if he could tap me for a tenner –
I told him for a tenner he could punch me on the nose.

The sister-in-law is always complaining that I never listen to her – or something like that.

Larry King, 80, was questioned about his eighth marriage to a lady in her fifties.
Asked by a reporter about the 30-year age difference, Mr King said: “If she dies, she dies”.

I have no trouble meeting expenses.
Every time I turn around, there they are.

People keep talking about fixed incomes.
I wish someone would fix mine.

You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and stop putting yourself down and make stupidity work for you.

I’m going to make two promises.
One is that I’m going to stop annoying you,
And the other is to stop lying some day.

Dear sister-in-law, I treasure every moment that I do not see you.

A wise man will ask one question, where a fool would ask two.
Is that true? Who told you that?

I don’t have stress, but I think I may be a carrier.

You can always recognize an egotist by the gleam in his I.

If I haven’t insulted you, I beg your pardon.

You know that expression “I’m not as daft as I look”.
You could never say that.

Two Million Children Are Off-Line

Poor children are falling behind richer pupils at school because they do not have access to a computer or the internet at home.
More than a million youngsters do not have a computer and two million are off-line.
With children from poorer families two and a half times less likely to have the internet to help them with homework, the gap in achievement between the two groups is widening.
Valerie Thompson, chief executive of the E-Learning Foundation which did the research, said: “Not having a computer or not being online is a very tangible disadvantage when it comes to completing work”.

The World Does Not Need Romantic Lovers

Man and wife, a king and queen with one or two subjects, and a few square yards of territory of their own.
This, really, is marriage.
It is true freedom because it is a true fulfillment, for man, woman and children.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Marriage – it begins with a prince kissing an angel.
It ends with a bald-headed man looking across the table at a fat woman.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

A happy marriage is based on discovery.
For each delights in the differences in the other –
And goes on learning all life long.
The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.

Promising To Protect The NHS Was A Sick Joke

Nurses do a gruelling and often thankless job for money most politicians wouldn’t get out of bed for.
But coalition ministers have decided that hitting NHS staff with a two-year wage freeze is not enough.
Annual increments, worth about £500 a year to the average nurse, are the latest targets for the ConDems’ axe.
The move risks a fresh exodus from the profession which, in turn, will damage patient care and put lives at risk.
Nurses have the backing of all those who can see that David Cameron’s pledge to protect the NHS was a sick joke.
The Prime Minister has broken a promise to increase funding and is opening the health service to private sector vultures.
Targeting the carers who provide the human face of the NHS adds insult to injury.

Virginity Is Like A Balloon

The first time you have sex with somebody is never as good as the second time.

“Looking back at my teen diaries, it’s obvious that at 14 I was sexually rabid, desperate for sex – but much too frightened because in those days there was no Pill”.
(Sheila Hancock, Actress)

It is considered polite for a man who has been making love in the missionary position to clamber off his partner before starting to snore.

I suggest that you take up masturbation as a full-time career.
You are, after all, already a complete wanker.

Virginity is like a balloon – one prick and it’s gone.

An unofficial and unreliable survey conducted by an inebriated team of unemployed condom makers from Mitcham showed that all 69 members of the Morden Institute for Christian Woman considered an enormous penis came third on a list of ‘Requirements for a good lover’ – behind ‘clean feet’ and ‘sensitive fingers’.

Never Look Into The Future

An optimist wears out his shoes and just figures he’s back on his feet.

No one is smart enough to remember everything he knows.

Success requires no explanations, failure permits no excuses.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

The essence of genius is knowing what to overlook.

Winning doesn’t really matter as long as you win.

Anything that reaches my ears or is seen by my eyes, becomes my business.

I never take anything for granted, therefore, I am rarely disappointed.

You start something with a particular idea or a particular thought, but once it is there it takes on its own momentum, its own life, and you just don’t know what direction it will go in.

The fiercest enemy is he that has nothing left to lose.

Behind every successful man there’s a woman who keeps quiet.

Most people who plant trees are planting them for their grandchildren.
You look up into that space above a sprig – and it requires a dream.

We only upset ourselves by our sins
But we upset others by our confessions.

Never look into the future and anticipate this, that, or the other, for to do so is to live in fear.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

£750,000 Given To Tories By Private Health Companies

David Cameron once boasted the Conservatives were now the party of the NHS.
But as each day passes his words sound more and more hollow.
Almost every single major health organisation – including the British Medical Association, The Royal College of General Practitioners, and Royal College of Nursing – has raised serious doubts about the reforms Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is unleashing.
And now we know, thanks to a leaked report, that even the Government’s own advisors believe the reforms are flawed.
The document says the NHS is facing a £10 billion-a-year shortfall which will require cuts to cancer research, lead to a rise in waiting lists and bring back the postcode lottery for treatment.
Neither Mr Cameron nor Mr Lansley mentioned any of the changes they were planning before the election.
When you are talking about the biggest overhaul of the NHS since its creation by the Labour Party in 1948, that is a scandal.
Yet again, you have to ask why the Lib Dums are allowing this vandalism without so much as a murmur.
But the biggest question is why Mr Lansley is doing it when the most recent survey shows satisfaction with the NHS has never been higher?
Another question is, why did private health companies give the Conservatives a donation of £750,000?