Friday, September 19, 2008

Thought For The Day - 09.19.08

A growing group of the world's leading physicists thinks that everything is made up of tiny vibrating strings.

String Theory - Einstein's Dream

String Theory, the theory of everything.
Today, Einstein's goal of combining the physical laws of the universe in one theory that explains it all is the Holy Grail of modern physics.

 

String Theory
by Margaret J. Hoehn

Imagine the world as a ball of twine,
wound from strands of song.

Lines lifted free from stanza and bar
arch into willow and climbing rose,
curve into river, road and root,
spiral into the peel of the apple
we fed to each other last night.

And yes, even the man rifling
the dumpster for food, is made
from the strains of cellos and lyres,
of dulcimers and
 harps.

Think of the pluck and strum
of latitudes and mandolins,
of strung wire fences,
and steel guitars,
of a woman's red hair,
loose in the wind.

They say that the bow
drawn over the strands
of a cirrus-streaked sky
spills music across the night.
And the evening we paused
outside the Banff Springs Hotel
listening to the violin
 --
you holding my face
in your hands --
I really did see the trembling notes
as they wafted from the windows above.

They say that the distance
between a major and a minor key
is the moment it takes
the breeze to riffle the sheets
of the world's music.
Rondos, ballades, dirges,
scherzos, nocturnes:
in your life, you
will learn them all.
And even in death,
your body will sing
.

And tonight, William Peterson, aka Gil Grissom, said on one of those endless re-runs of "CSI" that ‘string theory’ explained how he had analyzed the clues in a case involving two senior citizens, dead in their sleep, with no apparent mark of violence on their bodies, and no drugs in their system.

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