Ancient Mythologies for the Dark Age of Physics

Science didn't kill mythology. It just gave it a math degree.
Modern cosmology tells us a remarkable story: the universe is mostly made of invisible substances we cannot see, touch, or isolate. When galaxies rotate too fast, we invoke "Dark Matter". When the universe's expansion accelerates, we conjure "Dark Energy".
But what if these aren't the hard-won discoveries of an advanced scientific age? What if they are simply the modern equivalents of ancient gods; elegant placeholders invented to hold the cosmos together when our search for the empirical fails?
Ancient Mythologies for the Dark Age of Physics delivers a beautifully written, philosophically biting, and masterfully satirical courtroom drama that puts the modern astrophysical consensus on trial. By pairing 20 foundational cosmological observations with 20 ancient mythological traditions, this book exposes the haunting structural similarities between ancient religious storytelling and the modern physics.
From the Hittites to the Aztecs, from the Norse to the Anglo-Saxons, our ancestors knew exactly what to do when the visible world didn't add up: they invented unseen sovereignties to balance to explain reality's mysteries. Is modern astrophysics doing the exact same thing?
Inside this provocative journey, you will explore:

• The Myth of the Missing Mass: How phenomena like the Bullet Cluster and flat rotation curves mirror ancient anxieties about stolen power and hidden kingdoms.
• The Comfort of Ghosts: Why science is eager to populate the universe with unverified, invisible "dark" entities rather than confronting the mysteries we know exist.
• The Black Hole Shadow: An argument for the abyss. Black holes are real, empirically undeniable, and theoretically unresolved. What if the universe isn't governed by dark ghosts, but by the profound, misunderstood physics of the monsters already in the room?