Eureka no more: Is the moment of discovery becoming ever harder to pin down?
New Scientist, 7 January 2012
Winter of discovery come
inflating the continuum, moments stretch
over light years and eons, neither here and now
nor there and then; even a dying sigh distend
the universe’s belly, then, like homeopathy,
its infinite expansion renders absolute
the vacuum.
The whole world race away
from the chaser whose grasping vision foils
his feeble cast; the price of living more
than the scattering parts be worth. And who to feed
the defeated, or toss succour to the sparrow
of first snowfall, lost in the infinite,
the absolute?
They say neutrinos overtake light,
they say Higgs boson was sighted at CERN,
they say placental stem cells speed
the cripple’s step, the blind man’s sight, they say
oceans shall froth with methane; and yet, among
this absolute infinity, might this world not be
the blesséd one?
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
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