Winnie-the-Pooh came to a village far away from Hundred Acre Wood in which, as he had heard, stood a great jar of the very best honey to be found anywhere. Bears and honey, oh boy. The jar of honey was very famous. Everyone far and wide was saying — because they had had it heard being confirmed by everyone all the time — that this honey is especially very special because it is invisible. And so many other inhabitants of the woods and meadows came to look at The Jar, even from very far places no-one had ever heard of. Many of the rich visitors even hoped to be able to get a taste of this famous invisible honey. The jar was famously called “The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny”. Winnie-the-Pooh wanted to later take his friends, Christopher Robin and Piglet, to also see this Jar Full of Invisible Hunny. Maybe Christopher could buy some of the famous invisible hunny for Winnie-the-Pooh? But it must be very very expensive, so Winnie-the-Pooh thought he should first have a look.
Winnie-The-Pooh was very impressed by the great size of The Jar of Invisible Hunny and really wanted to get a taste of this very best honey. But no-one was allowed to look into the The Jar, and when someone did manage to sneak a glance in, they confirmed that it is truly The Jar of Invisible Hunny. Being a clever bear albeit with a very slow mind, Winnie-The-Pooh thought, after some time of looking at The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny, that he might learn a little more about this invisible hunny by knocking on the side of The Jar. He went up to The Jar, embraced it to show his gratitude of being near it, and quickly, so no-one noticed, knocked. The sound he received made him raise his eyebrows – the clanking he heard in return sounded as if The Jar was empty!
Somewhat disconcerted and very thoughtful, Winnie-the-Pooh sat back and looked at The Jar supposedly Full of Invisible Hunny. After some time (the Sun had moved from the left to the right) of very intense thinking, a thought slowly and unstoppably formulated in the bears mind: might it be that The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny is (supposedly) full of “Invisible Hunny” because there is no hunny inside The Jar? Very bothered with his new very Uncomfortable Thought, Winnie-the-Pooh got up and walked around the village and spoke to anyone who would be willing to listen to him. And every time Winnie-the-Pooh explained the Uncomfortable Thought, the listener stopped listening, calling the bear a very impolite bear who should stop having such Uncomfortable Thoughts, behave as everyone else and just accept that The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny is FULL of Invisible Hunny. This has been confirmed by many who have had it confirmed with utmost certainty by others, and there is no question about The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny being FULL of Invisible Hunny. EVERYONE knows this!
No-one believed Winnie-the-Pooh. Some even suggested that the bear be removed from the village and put into a hole as the bear’s Uncomfortable Thought might spread to those dimm wits with lesser minds. After all, the village wants everyone to come because the visitors bring affluence. Winnie-the-Pooh became very unhappy, and sat down again in moonlight as the Moon started to climb up its ladder. By the time Winnie-the-Pooh had to look straight up to see the Moon, a plan had formulated in the bear’s mind:
"If I am not allowed to taste the invisible hunny, I can at least see if I can remove the Uncomfortable Thought from my thoughts and become like everyone else, by dropping a small stone into The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny. If the stone falls through to the bottom or The Jar ever more rapidly, as if it were falling outside of The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny, then the Jar Full of Invisible Hunny is a jar without hunny in it and my Uncomfortable Thought would become a Bother. But if the stone falls into The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny and stops for a while before sinking down slowly to the bottom of The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny then The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny is indeed full of invisible hunny."The Winnie-the-Pooh Test
Winnie-the-Pooh became very proud of himself because he had managed to have such a great idea for such a complicated test, but he became very worried about the possible outcome of this ultimate experiment.
So when everyone was sleeping and the Moon had climbed down on the other side, Winnie-the-Pooh collected a little stone, cleaned it in a nearby stream, borrowed the same ladder and climbed up the Jar Full of Invisible Hunny. Looking around to make sure no-one saw his very secret and surely forbidden experiment, Winnie-the-Pooh dropped the little stone into the jar. It fell right through landing on the jar’s bottom with a clanking sound. The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny was completely empty.
Winnie-the-Pooh returned the ladder to where he had gotten it from so as to have no-one raise suspicion and sat down. His tummy was by now rumbling away and also increasingly unhappy, because it was very hungry. So Winnie-the-Pooh first needed to get his tummy, his best pal, happy, and he decided to look for a non-empty pot of honey, or some condensed milk, or something else that would make tummy happy.
Winnie-the-Pooh left the village with The Jar Full of Invisible Hunny which he now knew was an empty jar. He reasoned with himself: “oh bother, there’s nothing I can do about the large jar empty of hunny. No-one listens to me and no-one cares about knowing the truth, I do not want to end up in a hole and my tummy will have none of it anymore”.
In The Dark Matter Crisis by Elena Asencio, Moritz Haslbauer and Pavel Kroupa. A listing of contents of all contributions is available here.
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The Dark Matter Crisis 
Nice! The Emperor’s New Matter has been around for five decades now, yet no one has ever seen it or can show it exists. I agree that it became a social/psychological question just as much as it is a scientific question.
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