Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Listening to a Nobel Laureate Speak about Particle Physics

we watched him from our seats in the auditorium,
not even noticing the fluctuating gluons
moving in space like miniature lava lamps between
him and us [oblivious to their beauty, we read our newspapers
in our three dimensional Cartesian space, watching
our clocks tick]; one dimensional time is hard enough
to manage what with getting to work, picking up the kids.
in another dimension of a supersymmetric world,
we would be beautiful and thin to balance our chubby,
gluttonous selves, all we have to do is get there.

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