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Supercollider
All the others went home, I was working alone
in the lab on a Saturday night.
Would they just not believe? Could they just not conceive
the gravity of our plight?
They had said it was safe, “relax and have faith.”
They’d finished all their calculations,
but I couldn’t let go, as I paced to and fro
I sensed a much deeper implication.
It sounded absurd, but I knew what I’d heard
from a stranger who’d ‘come from outside.’
I’m smart like a fox, but this was outside the box,
and I’d have sensed it if he had lied.
He said we were ‘near to our innermost fear’
and he said, ‘if we didn’t shut it down…’
‘The universe we know we would surely blow’
and, ‘nothingness then would abound.’
He told me of time, and he told me of space,
then he showed me how everything’s one.
He was very sincere, as he showed how severe
it would be if we finished our run.
Then he walked toward the stair, and he just wasn’t there.
He had vanished without any warning.
As I checked all the locks, I looked up at the clock;
we had talked through the night until morning.
Now I’ve troubled my mind for the longest time,
to get to the bottom of this;
how something this strange and of such a grand range
could even come to exist.
I stay late again, in the lab after ten
in search of the ‘quantum entangled.’
I have to break through, make them see it’s all true
or everything’s going to get mangled.
Still looking for proof, but the answer’s aloof,
the stress of it shows on my face,
as I fill all the boards with numbers galore
‘till I finally run out of space.
So I fire up the Cray, and turn on the array.
I begin to enter the data.
At quarter to one, I’m still not having fun,
when a processor says, ‘sayonara.’
I sit in the chair, just pulling my hair.
My head is still aching from thinking,
as I swap out a skuzzy, “should the logic be fuzzy?”
and the fried electronics keep stinking.
Then the little grey man, who’d put forth this plan
appears without any warning,
“My patience grows thin,” (didn’t see him come in,
but I know the encounter won’t be boring).
I sit there enthralled, enraptured, then appalled,
yet I feel he’s avoiding the core.
In the boldness of youth, I demand the truth,
but he says that he can’t tell me more:
“You’ll just have to take, for survival’s sake,
the veracity of what I’ve outlined,
for the whole of it all is so wide and so tall,
that the truth wouldn’t fit in your mind .”
Supercollider by Katya Lavorovna
Just a foray into a different ring of thought (inference intended). Inspired by a book I recently read called “Blasphemy” which was written by Douglas Preston. It was an improbable scenario set in a technically inaccurate framework, imho, but it was still a fun romp.
There are, however, A LOT of highly qualified scientists who are not satisfied that the odds of creating a stable black hole or strangelet with a supercollider are not zero. They say that the odds of something like that happening are comparable to the odds of winning the powerball five times in a row, but you never know do you? As I said, the odds are NOT zero.
-Kay
Technical note: “skuzzy” =SCSI, and yes, it would probably not be SCSI, but rather SATA these days (for all the nitpickers out there) and there would be multiple RAID’s. Give me a little slack: I needed a word that rhymed. :)
Also an attribution: “The truth wouldn’t fit in your mind” is derivative of a similar line in the movie “The Forgotten” by M. Night Shyamalan. I believe the original line was, “The truth wouldn’t fit in your head.” That sent chills down my spine.-——————————
_ “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine.”_ (this quote, and variations of it, has/have been attributed to various scientists, but mostly to geneticist J.B.S. Haldane
I’m not selling any work here. I don’t feel at this time that it’s worth the paperwork for taxes on the pittance I would make.
On the other hand, I’m not taking up a lot of drivespace with my small sized works either.
If you like my work, your kind comments are appreciated.
If I can help you, let me know!
xxxoooxxxx
-Katya
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You are incredibly intelligent and your love for profound thinking is just beautiful.. I appreciate you.. but I have said this I believe the first time I met you through your work.. It can be a bit lonely for a woman to have a brain and beauty like you.. I so support you.
Hi there! You are too kind and give me far too much credit, but I so do appreciate the positivity in my life. You are no stranger to deep insight and intelligence yourself! I’m nowhere near in the same league. I’ve read some of your recent works, but I just don’t feel qualified to comment. One in particular, (and you know which one) the sensuality just blew me away. Then, the morning coffee- I love coffee, you captured all that, then made it so much more – the narrative surprised and delighted me in the direction it took (that’s a really good thing when a writer can do that) – it made me blush a little – also a good thing! God bless.
-Kay
– Katya Lavorovna
Oh Katya.. I would love to see that black and white icon sometime.. tee hee.. I am just glad you are here at all at RB.. thanks for such super nice words! Blush!!!
I’m going to try to stick around for a while on RB this time around, but I admit I’m tempermental (95% temper and 5% mental maybe? hehe).
– Katya Lavorovna
This is some of the most beautiful and interesting piece of works I have ever read. I am truly moved by it. It is fresh and flows nicely and the story is just so fascinating. I love it!
Thank you.
– Katya Lavorovna
I owe you a more intricate response than just ‘thank you,’ and I’m sorry I haven’t as I’ve been ill this week. I truly do appreciate the time, effort and insight you offered into my work, and I am so very glad it meant something to you! You are one of the few who ‘get it.’ I think we, the human race, are on the brink of a much greater understanding of what we are, and the true nature of the universe around us. If we can just keep from blowing each other to atoms for a bit longer, maybe we’ll be allowed to learn…..
xx
Kay
– Katya Lavorovna
Oh katya, this is an outstanding piece of work. I was captivated from start to finish. I shall live in hope that it remains science ficition in the form of poetry!! I just thought of a title for another quantum physics poem, ‘when two quarks collide’! :-)
Thank you.
– Katya Lavorovna
Just a superb piece of writing,Katya. More power to you. :-))
Thank you.
– Katya Lavorovna
Mr. Bailey, I do so owe you more than just a ‘thank you.’ I’ve been ill all week and am somewhat remiss in my responses to the kind folk like you who have given of their time and effort to consider my work. I am truly grateful for that time and effort, and I am very flattered that you consider this small work of mine worthy of such a fine compliment. You have a very impressive and interesting bio, and a wonderful ’folio which I will have to take some time to check out in more detail.
Thanks sincerely,
Katya
– Katya Lavorovna
I agree with all these other people! After reading your explanation, I was afraid to read the poem, because the explanation was so far over my head! I don’t understand all that, but the poem is wonderful! I’ll borrow all the adjectives from your other friends…superb!, beautiful, interesting…and as usual, the lyrical flow of words just enchants me!
Thank you.
– Katya Lavorovna
Kim, I’m so appreciative of your support and so happy that you enjoyed my work. I think God is the greatest scientist of all, and, as I have said above, if we can just keep from destroying ourselves for a bit longer, we may be allowed to learn just how great a scientist He is in his design of everything we see around us. Speaking from a quantum mechanical standpoint, I strongly suspect things are nothing like we have thought they were, and so many of the things we think we understand, we don’t. I thank God for allowing us grace through faith, because this vast creation in which we live, it’s all so very big it cannot fit into my mind, and, I suspect, no one living in human flesh can ever truly comprehend it all – such would be to look on the face of God, which we cannot tolerate in this flesh. Maybe, as I’ve said above, we might hope to be allowed to learn just a little of how this fantastic mechanism works while we are still here, but after we pass to what is next, well, then we’ll see a lot of things much much more clearly, will we not?
xx
Kay
– Katya Lavorovna
Yes indeed! And how I look forward to that! Scientists are still making discoveries that the Bible talked about centuries ago.