[louzell]

> There are certain theories of dark matter where it barely interacts with the regular world at all, such that we could have a dark matter planet exactly co-incident with Earth and never know. Maybe dark matter people are walking all around us and through us, maybe my house is in the Times Square of a great dark matter city, maybe a few meters away from me a dark matter blogger is writing on his dark matter computer about how weird it would be if there was a light matter person he couldn’t see right next to him.

> This is sort of how I feel about conservatives.

Please excuse a touch of extremely relevant self-promo. I am building a site to address exactly this. I'm calling it RedMeetBlue, pairing folks from the light and dark matter worlds for one-on-one chats. Link in profile. If you are interested in this experiment, or want to participate, I'd love to hear from you.

[nkingsy]

why does the red person have a mask on? Fringey for everyone at this point but I doubt it will encourage red people to join. Wasn't exactly their cup of tea.

[louzell]

Noted and good call, I'll take that out of the art.

[Cthulhu_]

> light and dark matter worlds

What does this phrase mean in this context? I may be misreading, but usually "light" and "dark" are euphemisms for "good" and "evil".

[louzell]

It was a reference to the featured article. It does not have any good or evil connotations. The author suggested that, like light and dark matter coexisting without any knowledge of the other's presence, the author coexists with conservatives with certain views (creationists). Stats show that they are out there in huge numbers, but he has no first hand account.

[jdbernard]

Here he is alluding to dark matter. So the light universe is our observable universe, the dark universe is the hypothetical universe made up of dark matter that we know has to exist, but so far have no means of observing or interacting with. That's the analogy he's making between the Red and Blue teams. They co-exist in the same space but manage to avoid interaction.

That was the meaning of that first bit from the article that OP quoted.

[motohagiography]

So like a trap?

[louzell]

Nope, not trying to trap anyone into a conversation they don't want to have. The purpose of the site is to match you with someone politically different. All marketing copy is forthright