I surely expected the board to be much more skeptical of this theory than what I'm seeing now. Perhaps in and of itself that is significant?

I for one have felt continually uncomfortable with the every growing theories of the way it works. "Dark Matter" was just a thorn which kept poking. Talk about a-priori reasoning at it's finest! In communications, Dark Matter is equivalent to the Comm. Cloud, that nebulous place where data magically goes from point-A to point-B without a lot of explanation. And everyone knows that 1)they can't explain whatever is in the comm. cloud, 2) they can't afford whatever is in the comm. cloud, and 3) no one actually owns the comm. cloud.

So how do we test these theories of an already collapsing, or soon-to-be collapsing universe?

DJ