NORTHERN PLANNER

Scientists are grappling with juicy enigma at the moment. There isn’t enough stuff in the universe. Seriously, there isn’t enough matter in the cosmos to account for all the gravity, there’s 10% unnacounted for, so they’ve decided there must be some strange invisible stuff out there that we can’t see.

Now this is the bit I like; it’s called Dark Matter, which gives it a mysterious, sinister tone of voice. Yep, they’ve gone for a slightly menacing science fiction – y name. You can imagine Ming the Merciless using Dark Matter to bring Flash Gordon to his knees, or Lex Luthor finding that it’s even more potent than Kryptonite in the battle with Superman. Who says scientists have no imagination?