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Poetry and Fiction

Winner in national "Write Science" competition 

29/9/2016

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Picture
Listening to Jupiter

Call it what you like
The music, the language of the cosmos
is ours
The expanding universe, the supernova;
red-shifting light from distant stars
 
Does it matter
if dark energy exists, filling the space
between
galactic islands; engimatic energy
imagined but forever unseen
 
Far-off galaxies  
bending space and time across
the vast
dimensions, the observable universe.
Can we glimpse our past?
 
Tweak gravity.
Particles are good vibrations:
music.
An ensemble of invisible strings.
Science may confuse it
 
yet planets sing,
and underlying unities of nature
hear.
I have listened to Jupiter;
am sure of the music of the spheres.    
©June Palmer April 2015
 
Music of the spheres is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon, and planets - as a form of "music" not usually thought to be literally audible, but a harmonic, mathematical or religious concept. The idea continued to appeal to thinkers about music until the end of the Renaissance, influencing scholars of many kinds, including humanists.
 

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