god particle

[mnaz]

what holds it all together?
matter of a cosmic careen?
some invisible grain, maybe god

so seek a god particle
deep in sci fi tunnels, miles of
superconducting monster-magnet
steel-ducted star trek octopus nightmare
in sinister caverns, smash particles harder

build babel for bazillions
chase a god riddle deep in our strata
tumble mystical metaphysical dominoes
chase a thing so unimaginably infinitessimal
yet key to everything, essence of essence
the physicists are restless

electron clouds a billionth of a centimeter
zing around a nucleus a million times smaller
but that's not enough, we need to know why
need a little underpinning, a unified theory
some thing to answer childish questions
like why are things the size they are?

if electrons were lighter
they would zing in smaller clouds
things would be smaller, but what is lighter
in the realm of already theoretically massless?
acid man relates if his pizza grows or shrinks
depending on the latest theory of mass

the god particle, pure revelation
grail particle in a fearsome juggernaut tunnel
some say it will spin off miniature black holes
picture an odd crease formed in some pasture
then mountains swirling into a cosmic drain
blip

[jim turner]

Linguist, aren't you? Well done. Just trying to read Hawking's Brief History of Time (a phunnish sort of physicist, isn't he?). Now remembering Walt Whitman's short poem (he did write a few shorties) about listening to the learned astronomers expound and then going outside to look at the stars. jim

[.Lucy.]

Su poema sinceramente me hizo pensar. Todavía estoy pensando cómo responder a esta bella escritura.

-L

[mnaz]

thanks jim, gracias lucy.

..just trippin' a little, recalling those reports i read last year about the latest generation of underground mega-super particle colliders, the one under france, and another one proposed for china, even more massive and expensive, something like $100 billion.

funny how, as good as we are, we're still perplexed on some basics, like gravity! we seem to understand its macro but not micro(?) i used to daydream about "god" as some mystery force binding things on the physical plane, and the "god particle" thing reminded me of that. and... "miniature black holes" as a possible side effect? hmm...

i suppose you can read other things in as well... maybe a general vanity and folly of trying to pin down "god." or, maybe "why are we spending hundreds of billions on this goose chase?" those sorts of things...

[joel]

Su poema
sinceramente me
hizo pensar. Todavía

estoy
pensando
cómo responder a esta bella escritura.

Sí. Otra vez. Para los dos, a ustedes: gracias.

[jim turner]

Yep! Eventually I will understand a little Spanish. Before, I hope, "they" manage to reproduce the "big bang" and wonder all over again, like the young man in the old one--"What the hell happened?" jim

[mnaz]

thanks, joel. yeah jim, kind of a "punk rock" ending on this one.... as in, a particularly nasty collision underground, and a swarm of little black holes all bump into each other, and before ya know it, the alps are swirling around, and **blip** wha' appen?...

[mtmynd]

the search for answers comes from the realization of what we don't know.

despite the fact the nobody can actually explain 'godallah', it remains a fact that most of us believe in such , even a particle of it.

good write, amigo...