[mgsouth]

Well youngsters, let me tell you. When I was your age gravity was faster. Now I don't mean stuff fell faster. Not a bit. It was just that everybody got on with the business at hand. Something pulled on you and you fell down. None of this shilly-shallying we got nowadays. Back then, a whole solar system would collapse down in a week, 10 days tops. But then all the baryons decided we needed "organization" and "processes". Every few billion years some bright spark would come up with a sure-fire way to "avoid all the chaos". So everybody would spend a million years arguing about what was now the best way to fall down. Meanwhile all the dark matter would mill around in confusion, going to meeting after meeting and not getting anything done, before finally giving up and just stop any interaction. 'Cept for gravity, of course. There's always gravity. It's just slower now.