mathematics.
The mathematics prepares
The student stars.
It predicts a certain
Unevenness in the performance.
How to connect the very small
To the very large is the task
Ahead. The task ahead
Is the path of the mathematics not yet
Walked down to the place
Where we meet in a mirror,
Sit down together, raise a glass of wine
And smile, nodding in accord.
General relativity
And quantum theory at the same table at last
Lift a fork
The size of the universe to eat a pea.
The Planck length is the pea.
Hawking guiding his self-powered wheelchair
And Einstein riding his bicycle
Walk the Planck.
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14. THE STAR
I was thinking about dogs
To fight death.
They get hold of it by the teeth and can
Go on forever.
Their eyes are pure
Fame and purity.
This was just an idea.
It came from thinking about the star.
I donât know its name.
It is very far away.
What does it say?
I was walking down by the water.
The night was warm,
The smell of spring.
In outer space the cold
Is fertile and freezes anything clean.
The star has the face
Of a flower.
It is burning and freezing
Immensity.
It has the power
To say a name.
When you look out the specially reinforced viewhole
Of the spaceship at the universe,
You are glancing down at the top
Of a tee as you prop a golf ball there
For the drive.
You look off in the distance toward the flag.
The black velvet lining of the box
That holds the stars is soft.
I let the dogs off the leash
And let them run and I pray.
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15. SPECIAL RELATIVITY
I am pushing the hidden
Pedals of my little car
To get somewhere I have
To get to.
The stars are everywhere, like tourists
At cherry blossom time.
A mist of cosmic dust
Drifts by for years.
Little Red Car to Earth:
I am up here. Itâs fun.
Iâm doing all the things.
Iâm signing off now to pedal.
The little boy pedaled
Through space in his car.
The birch canoe paddled
To avoid the black hole.
The stars stared,
Not being cool,
And stalked the celebrity cherry
Blossoms for an autograph.
And the very latest,
And the weather forecast,
And the Weather Channel,
And motorcycles are dangerous.
I was furiously pumping
The pedals of my little car
To get somewhere I had
To get to.
By the laws of special relativity,
I began to wrinkle and bend.
The universe has no end,
But I am getting there.
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16. TAKE ME TO INFINITY
We are completely
In the dark with our eyes.
We listen with the radio
Telescope to the noise.
We repair the Hubble
Telescope in place in space because they hiss
It is head and shoulders above a 200-inch dish
On a mountaintopâbut really
Astronomy is just like
Playing in the bath with a rubber duck
And looking at the universe all
At once and
We know so much nothing,
Why not know some more?
I say to the people
Of the United States,
Enough time has passed.
I say to the people of the world,
The time has come
And gone and now.
How did the universe begin?
I will count to ten.
How will it end?
I had the most amazing dream.
You were on all fours like a dog
And I was walking you
Aroundâ
And you were me!
And I was reading me the riot act
Because I donât make sense.
Both of me say: Take me to infinity!
Take me to before the universe!
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17. POEM
Her hobby is laughter.
She plays the musical saw.
Her bunk is aft.
Itâs her turn to sleep.
Mission Control is working feverishly
Through the night
To solve the problem and needs her
Awake.
The international space crew
Floats in the dark
Composing final thoughts
And smelling the smoke.
She is the most popular
Mission Commander
In the history of the Shakespeare program everâ
Brave, Chinese, and brilliantly alive.
She is a wife and mother
And Girl Scout leader.
Suddenly the ship shakes violently.
Something has exploded.
Shakespeare 5
has been sent up
With all the worldâs hopes. One
Last chance to deflect the asteroid.
This is Mission Control.
The mathematics prepares
The student stars.
It predicts a certain
Unevenness in the performance.
How to connect the very small
To the very large is the task
Ahead. The task ahead
Is the path of the mathematics not yet
Walked down to the place
Where we meet in a mirror,
Sit down together, raise a glass of wine
And smile, nodding in accord.
General relativity
And quantum theory at the same table at last
Lift a fork
The size of the universe to eat a pea.
The Planck length is the pea.
Hawking guiding his self-powered wheelchair
And Einstein riding his bicycle
Walk the Planck.
Â
14. THE STAR
I was thinking about dogs
To fight death.
They get hold of it by the teeth and can
Go on forever.
Their eyes are pure
Fame and purity.
This was just an idea.
It came from thinking about the star.
I donât know its name.
It is very far away.
What does it say?
I was walking down by the water.
The night was warm,
The smell of spring.
In outer space the cold
Is fertile and freezes anything clean.
The star has the face
Of a flower.
It is burning and freezing
Immensity.
It has the power
To say a name.
When you look out the specially reinforced viewhole
Of the spaceship at the universe,
You are glancing down at the top
Of a tee as you prop a golf ball there
For the drive.
You look off in the distance toward the flag.
The black velvet lining of the box
That holds the stars is soft.
I let the dogs off the leash
And let them run and I pray.
Â
15. SPECIAL RELATIVITY
I am pushing the hidden
Pedals of my little car
To get somewhere I have
To get to.
The stars are everywhere, like tourists
At cherry blossom time.
A mist of cosmic dust
Drifts by for years.
Little Red Car to Earth:
I am up here. Itâs fun.
Iâm doing all the things.
Iâm signing off now to pedal.
The little boy pedaled
Through space in his car.
The birch canoe paddled
To avoid the black hole.
The stars stared,
Not being cool,
And stalked the celebrity cherry
Blossoms for an autograph.
And the very latest,
And the weather forecast,
And the Weather Channel,
And motorcycles are dangerous.
I was furiously pumping
The pedals of my little car
To get somewhere I had
To get to.
By the laws of special relativity,
I began to wrinkle and bend.
The universe has no end,
But I am getting there.
Â
16. TAKE ME TO INFINITY
We are completely
In the dark with our eyes.
We listen with the radio
Telescope to the noise.
We repair the Hubble
Telescope in place in space because they hiss
It is head and shoulders above a 200-inch dish
On a mountaintopâbut really
Astronomy is just like
Playing in the bath with a rubber duck
And looking at the universe all
At once and
We know so much nothing,
Why not know some more?
I say to the people
Of the United States,
Enough time has passed.
I say to the people of the world,
The time has come
And gone and now.
How did the universe begin?
I will count to ten.
How will it end?
I had the most amazing dream.
You were on all fours like a dog
And I was walking you
Aroundâ
And you were me!
And I was reading me the riot act
Because I donât make sense.
Both of me say: Take me to infinity!
Take me to before the universe!
Â
17. POEM
Her hobby is laughter.
She plays the musical saw.
Her bunk is aft.
Itâs her turn to sleep.
Mission Control is working feverishly
Through the night
To solve the problem and needs her
Awake.
The international space crew
Floats in the dark
Composing final thoughts
And smelling the smoke.
She is the most popular
Mission Commander
In the history of the Shakespeare program everâ
Brave, Chinese, and brilliantly alive.
She is a wife and mother
And Girl Scout leader.
Suddenly the ship shakes violently.
Something has exploded.
Shakespeare 5
has been sent up
With all the worldâs hopes. One
Last chance to deflect the asteroid.
This is Mission Control.
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