Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore discovered that sometime within the last 11 billion years, a mysterious "dark energy" began to take over the universe, and now it's believed that the cosmos consists of 65 per cent "dark matter," 30 per cent "dark matter of unknown nature," and 5 per cent stars, gas and dust. (That would be our part.) "We live in a preposterous universe," concluded Dr. Michael Turner of the University of Chicago. A younger colleague from San Francisco summed up by saying, "Goth rules, man."