Fractionals

Okay, I'll bite.

Why would this be terrifying?

Well, sheer ignorance, for one. The vague idea of billions of gibbering Cthulhuoid beasties slavering in the gaps between "real" matter for another.

It didn't sound that scary til you raised that.

Thanks, I'm here all week.

Tip your server.

Dude. This is what my friend Duncan studies. You should hear him go on about it when he gets drunk - talk about scary!

Here's an interesting article...

I would more likely characterize this is "exciting" than "terrifying." People have been postulating theories about dark matter for years, but now there is some hard evidence that it does in fact exist. We live in interesting times.

On a related note, is anyone taking bets on how many official planets there will be 24 hours from now? Like I said, interesting times.

Can't it be both?

Especially considering I think it's exciting on a practical, real-world level and kind of terrifying on a more.... imaginative one.