Dark Flow, and limits to knowledge

An oddly written but interesting blog entry about something called "Dark Flow."

The phenomenon is pretty interesting in itself, apparently hundreds of millions of stars are all rushing (relatively) towards one spot on the outer edges of the known universe, something no one saw coming (hence, "Dark.")

I'm more interested, though, in the reaction:

"This is giant on a scale where it's not just that we can't see what's doing it; it's that the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening. Which is fantastic! Such discoveries force a whole new set of ideas onto the table which, even if they turn out to be wrong, are the greatest ways to advance science and our understanding of everything."

Which, I think, is spot-on. Too often we assume that our models of the world are correct, and we fight to keep them. Rarely does something come along that beggars some sort of contrived explanation.

I think one of the hallmarks of integral awareness (though it is in the healthy scientific consciousness that it first pops its head up) is the knowledge that we don't really know anything, except that we're here, and here is us.