Reply #46: *If* this were possible, it couldn't happen this quickly. Information can't travel faster than light

[Ian David]

If dark matter is 20 million lightyears away, then it would have to take 20 million years for the "information" that you have observed the dark matter to reach the particles in question.

Also, you don't actually "observe" dark matter (or dark energy) anyway. What you observe are the gravitational effects of dark matter that allow you to infer its existence and properties.

This is obviously a hoax, and a pretty funny one. It must have been INTENED to be funny, as opposed to the crap Richard Hoagland spews.

But let's just hope we don't discover a Babel Fish that causes God to wink out of existence.