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Nov. 14 - In which the Higgs Boson is used as a metaphor

by Jason Wardell

Nov. 14 - In which the Higgs Boson is used as a careless metaphor for love

It makes something palpable
out of my nervous energy
giving mass to the masses
weight to the weightless.

They say it can traverse time
to stop its own observation
leaving only quantum poets
callous enough to believe.

Either way,
it should exist.
I think it exists.
I hope it exists.

11/14/2009

Author's Note: Edited Dec. 4 2009. Published April 2010 in Metrosphere, Metropolitan State College of Denver's art and literary journal.

Posted on 11/14/2009
Copyright © 2024 Jason Wardell

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 11/14/09 at 04:44 PM

A mysterious concept, this Higgs Boson; great use of metaphor here.

Posted by Ava Blu on 11/15/09 at 06:11 PM

this is powerful.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 11/18/09 at 11:42 PM

I'm right with you here. And will come back later to see if we still are.

...unless perhaps this already just now happened.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 11/18/09 at 11:43 PM

Impeccable limitless mind, yours. You poet.

Posted by Tony Whitaker on 11/19/09 at 08:01 AM

Great write on one of my favorite subjects - the quantum world of physics! Living here in Switzerland, we are all awaiting the start up of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN any day now. The question is, will Fermilabs beat them to finding the Higgs?

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