Orbiting A Black Hole
Unlit on the stage, the dark juggler must be there, though we just see stars.
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Ardent Encounters
… and, in the fireworks that will ensue,
new stars will be conceived and born anew.
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This Acrostic poem spells Milky Way Galaxy down the left margin, to commemorate finding the super massive black hole at our own galaxy’s center, called Sagittarius A (and here, the word “Star” is what’s spoken, but it’s written as:) “*.” So the title is “Sagittarius A* , pronounced Sagittarius-A-Star (stop looking for the footnote). The […]
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SINGULARITY I’m always fascinated when two distinct time frames occur “simultaneously.” Looking from the outside at Alice disappearing into a black hole seems to take forever, thinks Bob, who stays on Earth to observe. Eventually, her light red shifts and fades to the point where it’s indistinguishable from the background of space and the black […]
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What stories are held inside a black hole? Is information even stored inside or is it lost entirely in the quantum, slow-motion evaporation that occurs randomly at its boundary? Noticing the sharpened point of my pencil, it seemed to me that information stored in the graphene was slowly and tediously in fits and starts, in […]
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Four billion years ago, the solar system was a shooting gallery. However, without these asteroids and comets bringing Earth the necessary raw materials, life may never have begun. Once life is present, these gifts from space are an entirely different matter. Just ask the dinosaurs, well look to their fossils, that is.
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We’re about to discover how small we are.
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Another sonnet on this topic comes from the sequel to Bard Of Mars, entitled View From Earth: PEDAGOGIC PROTOCOL Be careful what analogies you use. Sometimes they are literally taken and could misrepresent, mislead, confuse, or trap in a premise that’s mistaken the very minds that you seek to inform about the design and […]
Read more "Universal Misconception"Spatial Perception
We can see that even space is changing,
as it expands relatively through time.
The galaxies are all rearranging
in cosmic choreography sublime.
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BARD OF MARS 