"Do you have a flair for the obvious"
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 1:38 am
Do you have a flair for the obvious? Do you ever Google yourself. I mean do you have a thought and wonder if it is original or if you are only repeating something you read somewhere? For a long time I have been thinking that maybe God does shoot craps with a contingent universe. So I Google d it and got 21,500 hits. But not a direct quote.
I liked this one from an astronomy club in Madison Wisconsin, which was pretty close
I liked this one from an astronomy club in Madison Wisconsin, which was pretty close
Einstein and God Shoot Craps by Steven Fortney
God looks exactly like Einstein.
He is the CEO of a chain
of Casinos called
Happy Chance Heaven.
His Avatar and namesake, Albert
by name, engages Him,
shooting craps.
7 come 11 snake eyes
boxcars. God pitches
the dice against green felt.
(The house gathers at
the table, they are wide-eyed;
the stakes are immense!)
7 come 11 snake eyes
boxcars. God cleans
up. Albert is broke.
Albert cries O symmetry
asymmetry third order
interpolation, standard model,
string theory chaos: a GUT
and a TOE.
I can't believe, he says,
That you shoot craps
with the Universe!
God twirls his gray moustache
Poor guy, he says, I do; but here's
my little secret. Sometimes I shoot
straight, sometimes I don't. Either way
(here he takes Al's last dollar)
the Universe wins.
And both ways I throw dice
(Yes I do), just to see
what happens.
I know that upsets you,
but is this a comfort?
The dice we just played with?
They're loaded.
The Madison Astronomical Society