The missing cosmic link has been found.  Revealed in news stories yesterday.  “Smoking-gun” proof that the speculated non-homogenous pattern of galaxy dispersion throughout the cosmos macrocosmically replicates the microcosm of subatomic irregularities at the birth of our universe 14 billion years ago has been provided by two separate research teams.

Moreover they have determined that only 18% of all the matter in the cosmos is visible (baryonic).  The rest (82%) is the undetermined substance called dark matter (non-baryonic).  And…

 
As if this picture weren't strange enough, the 2dFGRS [study] also showed that all the mass in the universe (both luminous and dark) is outweighed 4:1 by an even more exotic component called "vacuum energy" or "dark energy". This has antigravity properties, causing the expansion of the universe to speed up. This conclusion arises when combining 2dFGRS results with data on the microwave background radiation, which is left over from the time when the baryon features were created. The origin and identity of the dark energy remains one of the deepest mysteries of modern science.
    --ScienceDaily.com

Let’s see: all matter is only 20% of “stuff” in the cosmos and what we normally have considered “the Universe” (visible ‘stuff”) is just 18% of that, or a mere 3.6% of Everything!

Funny thing is, the Dark Side isn’t appealing to us or trying to attract us, but repelling us.   It’s dissing us like a totally undesired wooer.  I’m offended.  What makes it think it’s better than us, anyway?