Quantum musings on a cosmic scale
\nby cricketjeff on December 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\ni)<\/p>\n
We find all actions must entail
\nA little probability.
\nIt’s roulette on the quantum scale;
\nA game of chance for you and me.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 For everything is made of string,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 That vibrates most harmonic’ly.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 These trillion trillion voices bring
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A game of chance for you and me.
\nElectrons, quarks and all the rest
\nAre born of some strange energy.
\nThe universe seems to suggest
\nA game of chance for you and me.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We find all actions must entail
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A game of chance for you and me.<\/p>\n
ii)<\/p>\n
The forces that we thought we knew
\nAll seem to have been born as one.
\nA tiny blob of quantum glue
\nSprung into life as time begun.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Inflating at the highest rate,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As all the particles were spun.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It cooled into another state,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sprung into life as time begun.
\nNow gravity and strong and weak
\nAnd electromagnetic fun
\nCondensed from that undreamed of peak,
\nSprung into life as time begun.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The forces that we thought we knew
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sprung into life as time begun.<\/p>\n
iii)<\/p>\n
Just fourteen billion years ago
\nThe temperature began to fall.
\nI wonder if we’ll ever know
\nWhat caused the bang that built us all.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Now just a cloud of microwaves
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Is left of that first bugle call.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 What writes our music on the staves?
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 What caused the bang that built us all?
\nPerhaps a wobble in a brane
\nCreated this enormous ball.
\nWill this beginning come again?
\nWhat caused the bang that built us all?
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Just fourteen billion years ago
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 What caused the bang that built us all.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nA canto formed of three kyrielle sonnets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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