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The universe has knees that glow,
The devil's frown among them.
Our paths are stacked row onto row,
Time's fabric sewn to hem them.
"Free-Ranging Allowed, Creative Responses Encouraged" <-- Oops I forgot to put this in.
Just for the record: Anything I post should have this affixed. If it doesn't it's 'cause I forgot.
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nonsensical but nice to read aloud - good job with the meter.
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The devil is in detail...er knees! 
dale
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(04-13-2014, 07:42 PM)Mopkins Wrote: nonsensical but nice to read aloud - good job with the meter.
Marianne
Although it seems nonsensical at first glance, it's actually
a reasonably accurate series of cosmological metaphors
about the big bang and the structure of the universe.
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(04-13-2014, 08:33 PM)Erthona Wrote: The devil is in detail...er knees!
dale
Believe me...god is in the detail....the more closely you look the more likely that becomes. I am still not convinced of Higg's boson...or god, for that matter.
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(04-13-2014, 08:33 PM)Erthona Wrote: The devil is in detail...er knees!
dale
The devil is an anti-god string vibrating its head off (pun intended)
while wrapped tightly around a god string. This entity forms our
local brane which is part of multiversical loaf.
So they're both in the details.
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(04-13-2014, 08:43 PM)rayheinrich Wrote: (04-13-2014, 07:42 PM)Mopkins Wrote: nonsensical but nice to read aloud - good job with the meter.
Marianne
Although it seems nonsensical at first glance, it's actually
a reasonably accurate series of cosmological metaphors
about the big bang and it's journey through time.
gee whiz - now i look stupid again - know nothing about cosmology - but I'm full of nonsense... forgive me my ignorance.
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The Higg's boson only imparts mass to matter, it has nothing to do with gravity, as gravity effects light, which has no mass. There is no observational proof that God exists, but then there is no observational proof that emotions exists, or for that matter their is no proof that anything besides myself exits, and life is like a 4d movie in which I can walk around, created by myself, and then forgotten so as to make it more fun. However I choose to believe that I am not the center of all things, and that all beings have as much right to be here as I. Of course that is only what I believe.
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(04-13-2014, 07:21 PM)rayheinrich Wrote:
The universe has knees that glow,
The devil's frown among them.
Our paths are stacked row onto row,
Time's fabric sewn to hem them.
Cute and obtuse but as a theo-scientific nugget I could not fail to disagree less.
One devil('s) or many? Frown....verb or noun? Makes sense both ways, even though the sense is non-sensical. So what? I can "see" the surreality of it.
...frown amongst? Can you be amongst two...maybe between, but not amongst two knees...we are as yet in the singular universe mode so I go for just two knees. Aw the hell, it's your poem, your universe can have as many knees as you see fit.
Paths are "stacked" or "tacked"? For me, it's now multiverse time...and turtles can be stacked one on the other, all the way down. So I would go with "Our paths are tacked, row on to row". Your poem, but stacking rows is beyond my visualising skills...Turtles? That's a different matter.
That last line is the rub because you bizarrely continue with this odd device of capitalising every line. Quite apart from the seamstress metaphor only just muddling through to the end, the isolation of the last line from the rest is made more apparent by the capital letter at the start.
To a lesser degree, though made affirmative by the period end of L2, there is a break of metaphoric significance between the two couplets which I find hard to overcome....but I put that down to my autism (or so my wife says).
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(04-13-2014, 07:21 PM)rayheinrich Wrote:
The universe has knees that glow,
The devil's frown among them.
Our paths are stacked row onto row,
Time's fabric sewn to hem them.
a constant poem indeed.
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(04-13-2014, 09:08 PM)Erthona Wrote: The Higg's boson only imparts mass to matter, it has nothing to do with gravity, as gravity effects light, which has no mass. There is no observational proof that God exists, but then there is no observational proof that emotions exists, or for that matter their is no proof that anything besides myself exits, and life is like a 4d movie in which I can walk around, created by myself, and then forgotten so as to make it more fun. However I choose to believe that I am not the center of all things, and that all beings have as much right to be here as I. Of course that is only what I believe.
Dale I read somewhere, and choose to believe, that if you had a big enough magnet you could attract god....or was it repel the devil? Anyway, gravity doesn't attract light, that's moths your thinking of...gravity bends space and light travels straight in space...er...excepting if space is bent in which case it follows the tracks which as everyone now knows are made out of string. It's not difficult, for Pete's sake...ray understands it, why can't you. l am inclined to move this to the discussion board but it's all been said before...or will be.
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(04-13-2014, 08:58 PM)Mopkins Wrote: (04-13-2014, 08:43 PM)rayheinrich Wrote: (04-13-2014, 07:42 PM)Mopkins Wrote: nonsensical but nice to read aloud - good job with the meter.
Marianne Although it seems nonsensical at first glance, it's actually
a reasonably accurate series of cosmological metaphors
about the big bang and it's journey through time.
gee whiz - now i look stupid again - know nothing about cosmology - but I'm full of nonsense... forgive me my ignorance. Sorry, I was just kidding around. While it does consist of reasonably
accurate cosmological metaphors, its intent is to seem like nonsense at
first and then lead you into a vague sense that maybe there really IS
something profound out there; that it all isn't just nonsense (which
it is).
The metaphors are a joke with myself. If actual cosmologists were to
read it, they'd probably not get them either. And if I were to explain them,
they'd laugh and tell me: 'You are so FAR from right that you aren't even
wrong' (the last being a reference to a book that was less than impressed
with string theory).
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String theory is a science fiction story with no basis in reality. The real question is how does one bend space? The answer is by mass. Gravity is a fictitious force, just like centrifugal force. So the real question is what is space that it is able to be bent by mass? I say space is composed of tiny little apertures that bend easily in the direction of mass, and bend with difficulty away from mass. This is just as probably as string theory and just as provable.
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(04-14-2014, 12:20 PM)Erthona Wrote: String theory is a science fiction story with no basis in reality. The real question is how does one bend space? The answer is by mass. Gravity is a fictitious force, just like centrifugal force. So the real question is what is space that it is able to be bent by mass? I say space is composed of tiny little apertures that bend easily in the direction of mass, and bend with difficulty away from mass. This is just as probably as string theory and just as provable.
Dale
What is the meaning of everything when the meaning of meaning is meaning.
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