Our universe has things in it because chance quantum fluctuations enable. Nothing is what violates Nature’s laws — something is apparently more stable. Supersymmetry was asking for it. It was just too perfect to be withstood, and once it took the predictable hit it lit up the entire neighborhood, and, in that Big Bang, the […]
Read more "Breaking Symmetry"ENTROPIC HOPE Dr. Smart, with sweeping dioramics, summarized theory accepted today: “The first few laws of thermodynamics: You can’t win, break even or get away. “No matter speed of acceleration, the universe runs down since the Big Bang. The fate of order is dissipation. The spring, once sprung, can’t be re-sprung. It sprang. […]
Read more "Entropic Hope"Happy 40th Anniversary to Voyagers 1 & 2! Almost out of the solar system, traveling faster than anything else man has ever built, soon (in an astronomical sense) you will announce our presence to the rest of the intelligent universe (if it exists). You are our first spacecraft unable to ask, “Are we there yet?” […]
Read more "Topping The Star Charts"TOURIST TRANSPORT When people come to a poem (through their own free will), they are prepared to step off familiar shores, ferried by the poet gondolier. The vessel must be yare and in keeping with the scene, ideally classical in design – without intruding technology – and with simple lines. The ride […]
Read more "Tourist Transport"Life in interstellar space will have its perks. ASTRONAUTICAL JOYS One day the horizon won’t seem so vast, when we step off the planet of our birth. In space, we’ll look ahead into the past to find a future never seen on Earth. The farther out we look the further back we see to the […]
Read more "Astronautical Joys"“I have not as yet been able to deduce from phenomena the reason for these properties of gravity, and I do not feign hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental […]
Read more "Gravity In The Mind Of God"It would be possible to chart a course for a planet in another galaxy, only to find out its star had already gone supernova before we had even begun our journey. Since, at present, we have no hope of traveling faster than light, we can only obtain distant information at the speed of light, so […]
Read more "Sidereal Atlas"The terms we use confuse and misdirect.
It’s like we still hold Ptolemy correct.
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 […]
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BARD OF MARS 