The Big Bang

[Magpie]

The Big Bang

I mourn foolish days
of perceived synchronicity.
Mystic mornings
deciphering the digitalis.

Sunrise is still an upturned jewel
and distant galaxies still astound in scintillation.

Yet a magic was lost
when science explained it all
so eloquently.

[dukealien]

Trying to decide if "eloquently" is an actual crown or a sly warning (for what is eloquent - like the poem to that point - is not necessarily true, only pretty). Like "elegance" in math-of-science, it sometimes works very well... but is seldom final.

Good phrases: "deciphering the digitalis" (always knew foxgloves were hiding something - fingerprints, maybe); "sunrise... an upturned jewel" - ruby, topaz, pearl depending on weather. Some of them don't make perfect sense, but why should they? Like any theory of everything, the Big Bang is incomplete. Like math.

[Magpie]

Thanks Duke,

'eloquent' is a word that seems to crop up a lot with scientists when talking about theories. I'm sure I've heard Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson use it a lot.
'The Big Bang' is probably not good for a title now that I think about it, although learning about it years ago was the reason for feeling that a 'magic was lost'. But it's not so much the theory, rather the order that is the reason.
It used to be wrong to ask what was before the big bang, now it's a perfectly reasonable question.

Might rethink title, cheers for reading.