Contents (1st page)

PREFACE: HAIKU SENT TO MARS …………………………..……………..…..…..…. ix MARTIAN CONNOISSEUR ………………………………..…….…..…………….………. 1 VIEW FROM SPACE ……………………..…………………….…..….……..………………. 2 “A” IS FOR ASTRONOMY ..……………..………….……….…………….………………… 3 SUPERLUMINELLE. ………………………………………….…………..………..…….…… 4 “DARK BACKWARD AND ABYSM’ ……………………………………….………….…. 5 BABY PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE …………………………………….…………..…. 6 THE WHOLE MULTI-ENCHILADA ………………….……………………..………….. 7 UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE …………………………….…………………..……….……. 8 PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE …………………………….………………………..……….. 9 Where […]

Pursuit Of Knowledge

What the uncertainty principle actually means is that some information automatically interferes with or obscures other information. These are called complementary variables. Some examples are position and momentum, wave particle dualities and even energy and time (duration). It is the limit of knowing with mathematical certainty two of a particle’s physical properties at the same […]

Uncertainty Principle

This Shakespearean sonnet takes a different take on uncertainty. Some may question the existence of poetry with a clear message, but I maintain that poetry need not obfuscate. Some may deny that “Uncertainty Principle” is a poem, so to help them better understand, here is the version with the “proper” line breaks: UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE […]

Inside Cover Flaps

This 80 page manuscript has been under consideration by three publishing houses in the past three years. Most currently, Smithsonian Books wrote: “Hello Jim, Thank you again for allowing Smithsonian Books to review your proposal for BARD OF MARS. We enjoyed reading the poetry and found it very unique, but unfortunately decided it is not […]

THE MULTI-ENCHILADA

This light verse limerick packs a profound punch. At 13.7+ billion years, our universe has had a long time to expand and grow to it’s present size of one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. However, we have learned that this cosmic view is limited to the speed of light within space, while space […]

Baby Picture Of The Universe

The Baby Picture of the Universe is an image taken from more than 13 billion light years away of the Universe that was less than a million light years across. How have we managed to “step back” to take such a picture? Time and expansion of the Universe. Everywhere in the Universe this is a […]

“Dark Backward And Abysm”

“DARK BACKWARD AND ABYSM” We can see fourteen billion light years out. For those still here a million years from now, more light will have traveled to them, no doubt, the million light years that space will allow. Distant descendants may not see much more, however, than what we can now observe. Despite […]

Superluminelle

The villanelle, “SUPERLUMINELLE,” first appeared in The Society of Classical Poets, Annual Journal, Vol.1, 2013. SUPERLUMINELLE The Universe is expanding, faster than the limit of light, beyond common understanding. Cosmology is demanding. Its study is by no means slight. The Universe is expanding. Physics’ heroes, quite outstanding, have applied their full mental […]

“A” Is For Astronomy

This Shakespearean sonnet deals with the concept of “We Are Stardust.” Because the heavier elements and molecules that make us up originate inside the hearts of stars by the process of fusion. With the exception of hydrogen, helium and some lithium, all that composes us was forged in the interior of primordial stars. However, fusion […]

VIEW FROM SPACE

The telescope we call The Hubble (despite its initial brief trouble) shows, in visible light, deep-field, cosmic delight, while making our knowledge redouble.

BARD OF MARS

In The Twilight Zone Of Poetry And Science

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