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Quantum Reality (Free verse) by Quarton
Time's beginning, born of singularity, hurtling outward and transformed; the whole dispersed in passing surrender to its parts. Infinite density transmuted into the illusion of separateness, where all possibilities occur and duality becomes reality once again. Newly created life, born of stars in death's throes, exploding suipernovae with fertile cosmic energy, sowing the womb of future being as evolution gradually unfolds in ever increasing complexity. Energy disperses endlessly outward in expansion, creating time/space in its wake, chance assuring strange phenomena will occur. Solitary reality only deception as cosmic events ensue and new universes appear. Wildly spinning particles become energy's dervish, nebulous points merging one into another, again united in brief reunion, only to vanish anew; disappearance in harmony with the ceaseless cosmic dance. Brahma and Vishnu, creation and destruction, all things but reflections of the one, all encompassing organic whole. From emptiness, more particles appear, merging into unbroken unity, outside form and precept, beyond notion, past even space and time while energy patterns cavort playfully, both wave and particle, together forming quantum's enigma. All is transformed as consciousness merges and becomes one with self, an infinite convergence where dualism and time cease to exist, our intuited separation but a mundane, finite notion obscuring the inseparable cosmic web, external world woven into internal and united; self-awareness now engendered, the universe embodied and aware. Untold ancient cycles play out their celestial roles of birth and death, emptiness and form, reality and fantasy as endless patterns pervade. Our conceptual emotions ineffable, residing in abstraction's realm, a state of being joined with the inner world of perception, a theoretical puzzle beyond form and word, beyond concept and the illusion of division while truth resides in the center and knows. In concert, the spider weaves her web, clusters of form appearing, born of dancing particles frolicking in and out of existence. The ubiquitous cosmic dancers only illusion in fantasy's world as finite reality obscures shared unity; unaware there is only the dance, without form and timeless.

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Posted: March 1, 2007 4:58 PM PST; Last modified: March 1, 2007 4:58 PM PST
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[8] Dovina @ 208.127.90.245 | 2-Mar-07/8:50 PM | Reply
The title seems too narrow, since this is about more than quantum mechanics. It’s a kind of wandering theory of everything, where supernovae is misspelled. It’s a mixture of science and speculation, and edges on preaching. But you avoid that trap and stop after saying that we humans are, in your opinion, not separate entities as we suppose, but part of some organic whole. I’d like it better if it held closer to real science until the end, as it does in much of it, delaying “the inseparable cosmic web” idea. I think that would make your last verse more powerful.
[8] Bethy @ 165.154.46.45 | 3-Mar-07/3:44 AM | Reply
I read this twice...pause...three times...dito on science and speculation(Dovina)...second last para is my fav part...:) Bethy
[n/a] Quarton @ 12.206.226.220 | 6-Mar-07/11:20 AM | Reply
Thanks for the comments. I love Vonnegut and the movie version of Slaughterhouse Five is one of my favorites. It is a "must see" in my opinion and is almost a cult movie as Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. I am curious. What is the other half? Also, your post was deleted and I am not sure why. Any suggestions as this has happened several times?
[8] Ranger @ 86.131.51.9 > Quarton | 8-Mar-07/1:28 AM | Reply
I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five at the moment, it has a lot to live up to as I thought The Sirens of Titan was awesome. Have you heard Al Stewart's song about the book?
As for the deleted posts, you must be clicking on the red 'X' rather than the 'reply' button. We really should get nentwined to move that button somewhere less offensive...
[n/a] Quarton @ 12.206.226.220 | 6-Mar-07/11:37 AM | Reply
Dovina--Yeah, it does wander but so does my mind. It also wonders in regard to science, cosmology and quantum mechanics. Rather esoteric stuff and I suspect even the theoretical physicists are unable to unerstand on an intellectual level. Ineffable is descriptive of this enigma. Regardless, we are all connected despite the illusion of separateness.
[8] Ranger @ 86.131.51.9 | 8-Mar-07/1:36 AM | Reply
Interesting read - in a few places it sounds more science textbook-y than poetic ('ever increasing complexity' etc.) I liked stanza 5 and its cosmic dance - perhaps a reference to Holst's Planets Suite would have been appropriate there?
It's certainly a piece with some education behind it - I like that, but my failing is a short attention span. Maybe cutting it into two or three sections would make it easier for simpletons like myself to read in one sitting?
Good poem though.
[n/a] Quarton @ 12.206.226.220 > Ranger | 13-Mar-07/1:35 PM | Reply
Thank you, Ranger. I believe there should be more written on the subject of quantum mechanics but it is inherently difficult to write about. Einstein said imagination is more important than intellect so that should open up poetic possibilities beyond my often feeble attempts.
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