Nick Maclaren wrote:
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Tumbleweed wrote:

I think you'll find, that except for the plasma forming the sun,
everything in the solar system is a chemical. ...

No, no, not at all.

Something that has been missed by modern science is that there is
a complete alternate system of matter, based on the elementary
particles called stupidity, ignorance, dogmatism, intolerance and
abusiveness. This accounts for the missing matter, commonly called
'dark' matter.

Recently, an alternate solar system passed through ours, and some
of the inhabitants of the other one, called trolls and made up of
those elementary particles, got stuck in ours. Their reasons for
disliking anything made up of chemicals should be obvious.

Nick, you don't know how grateful I am! I've been worrying for years
about who or what they were! And your lucid exegesis provides the
answer to my final riddle, which was why on earth one never actually
_met_ one in real life: with our chemically-specialised senses, we
can't even _see_ them.

You've made an...er...a middle-aged man very happy.

--
Mike.