Dark Matter

In 1929, Edwin Hubble theorized that the universe was expanding.

In 1998, scientists found evidence that this expansion was speeding up.

It is only the space between stars.

Only matter, falling away from itself:

the dark and missing

side of the universe—

earth, air, fire, water,

quintessence the fifth element

—everything now is farther but gets there

faster: light in the wires, your hand

as it lifts toward your face, more distant

by an atom than the day before. A spilled drink

moves across the table at six feet

per second, but so too does the cloth.

We have direct evidence from the supernovae.