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Even In The Starkest Void, This Quantum Caress Survives

by Tom Goss

I.
Empty space has tension.

As virtual electrons and positrons
appear and disappear in a trillionth of a nanosecond
the time-spiders emerge from our clock-gouged faces,
sputtering maniacally forwards and backwards
across the whispering walls of reality.

The universe inhales and exhales
in minute quantum jerks.


II.
Evolution determines macroscopic reality.

Thus even multiple universes should be constrained
by the evolutionary psychology of organisms:
greatly limiting the range of possible futures
that may bloom from parallel universes.


Does this not defy the supposedly infinite
spike of quantum probabilities?

As the time-spiders emerge
from our clock-gouged faces,
the frenzied foam of Spacetime
bubbles up from the interstellar deep.

07/03/2009

Author's Note: Please check out my new book! ;)>

Posted on 07/03/2009
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Tom Goss

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Leonard M Hawkes on 07/06/09 at 05:11 PM

All the physics makes this one a very scientificly unique piece of art--again, well done!

Posted by V. Blake on 07/06/09 at 06:23 PM

I feel like most of this went way over my head, but there are parts of it that I absolutely loved. "Our clock-gouged faces" was brilliant.

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