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Relativistic Perspectives

We are:

Inconsequential carbon motes trapped on a

        [Warm, wet, and well lighted]

slithy crystal sphere,
lost in the deeps of the multiverses unbound,
    cycling eternal;

femtoflashes of strangest loop.

Ephemera

        [- Awake to this eternal now!- ]

My
        [Whatever it is “I” am]

Weary world line creeps longer second by second,

        [mere fluid abstractions of reality prime,
        false fragmentations tick-tocked
        By quivering atomic gyres]

Marking out this personal tale through personal time,
parsing off
Planck slivers of eroding dreams,
Atto-negations of old desires,
As a soul’s decaying asymptotic series approaches zero

      [Zero, a sound by cavern lips carved]

Thirty solar years.
Such a time enough to contemplate mortality-
to see fool hopes fade when faced by
the immensity of probable(listic) despair!
Only dullard eyes fixed upon
the vanishing paths of futures fulfilled
are blind to the vast looming

        [{Aleph1} infinite null set ]

shadow that engulfs the space of possibility.
All ends  actions  pursuits are futile,
To be engulfed by the chaos of the cosmos,
As if they never were.

Inescapable, Shiva holds the sharpened arrow of time,
Spreading mycorrhizas of entropic blight-
Whose chilling fury all
things
systems
worlds       
              Decays 
                            Collapses.


Standing aghast this terrible might,
this

        [roving metapattern of hungry information,
        temporary aggregating atomic array,
        stable eddy of boiling roiling space time]

form will radiate away-
revealing the fractal autonoma face
I had before I was born;

its lightcone hurdling towards
the heat death of the universe
the cold death of the soul

        [Absolute {zero] Absolution}

But not before

I ride the waves of dark energy,
ever speeding imploding receding
faster than light into endocosmic dark;
Accelerating beyond the observable horizon,
from everyone everything anything
From myself and all I ever could have been,
to become a frozen redshifted ghost,
Flatlined invisible,fading
from the universe’s memory.
Complete info-emotional delete erase;
computational collapse,
algorithm interrupted.

Will I become
The Singularity?
Burnt out core,shadow shrouded 
furious void. A ragged tear in the fabric
devouring blindly;
spewing forth gamma ray screams
evaporating to
nothing:
Cosmic end.

Or will there be
information inversion by
a radical isomorphic translation-
n-manifold topological eversion?

          [an awakening to that which has always been]

Through inflationary ekpyrotic clash
a new universe spewed through the looking glass,
clothed in primordial light,
adorned in subtle afterbirth?

What shall become of this precious fugue?


Author notes

This is the first poem I have written in several years. Its an attempt at dense conceptual synthesis and experiment in some language and form. Think SEED magazine,Edge.org and 3rd Culture.

Its very technically dense with allusions to theoretical physics, cosmology, and higher mathematics. Wikipedia might help if you are lost and want a full appreciation. Parenthases are symbolicaly representing a second voice and/or a sort of poetic footnote. I imagine them as floating behind the primary text in a 3 dimensional space, links on a webpabe if you will.

by SamishiiUnabara

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Comments

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  • dustytiger
    January 30
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    honestly at first i did not so much dig the formatting, but i am glad that i looked past it and read it cause it really tickled my brain cells (in the good way) i loved this very much, and will have to re-read it a few times to truely get all the deeper meaning, great poem

  • The Rainbows Mind
    December 18, 2008

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    Although I do not study much within the scientific or phisics perspective, I found this to be very interesting. The reason I liked this poem so much is that a comprehension and thoughts will happen beyond the words of this poem. It is very "dense" as you say, and also very vague while at the same time extremely descriptive.
    I'm a sociology major. Though I don't look at a few of these concepts from the technical aspect, I've explored them. Especially, the concepts near the end. Being as one's reality is socially constructed, it was interesting to see your scientific theory on what could happen if you somehow vanquished your "humanity." I suppose it's really hard to put into words my inerpretations of this poem. This is why I like this poem so much.
    Communication is the way that we are so easily able to convey our thoughts and understanding. Though sometimes within our mind, we have a profound understanding that others are not so easily so able to see. Haha, I suppose it's my excuse. I could go on for pages but I'll spare my fingers and your eyes the anguish.
    Great poem and thanks for entering. Good luck.


  • TenShadesOfPale
    July 27, 2008
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    Thank you for entering my contest and good luck.


  • whitemd
    July 26, 2008

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    great

    Kudos on drawing out the poetry of the world around us. "Will I become/The Singularity" struck me as a sci-fi J. Alfred Prufrock. And that I like.


  • Poetic Obscenity
    July 24, 2008
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    Wow

    Long but ever so worth it.
    Thank you and good luck.


  • only1love4ever
    March 27, 2008

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    Only1love4ever-Reply

    Wow, that was amazing. I've never been well educated with science. The farthest I've made it was chemistry. Which was a bit difficult for me-too. But you have made quite an expedition out of your writing in a way i've never seen before. this defiently has character and it is extremely creative. Thank you and best of luck to you as well! :]


    • SamishiiUnabara
      March 29, 2008
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      Thnx!!

      I was worried this was going to be too radically esoteric for most- but I wanted it to be intellectually and emotionally challenging, like Cooleridge, or a Bhuddist sutra. I'm super glad to hear you were able to enjoy it and get it.

  • meat
    March 26, 2008
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    Not thats an enterance...

    Ok Science teacher Now this is a great contribution to the site in all ways! I love the way you have used your science background to describe your journey through life and to ask question that I guess we all ask as we get older. To bad I cannot answer them for you

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