{"id":766,"date":"2012-10-28T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2012-10-28T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T19:49:54","slug":"poem-universe-vast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/poem-universe-vast\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Universe So Vast"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once asked God<\/span>
\nWhy did you make the universe so vast?<\/span>
\nWhat were you possibly thinking?<\/span>
\nAnd God said<\/span>
\nI was kind of hoping<\/span>
\nTo have enough room<\/span>
\nFor all of the poetry yet to be written<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a poet’s poem, in case you didn’t know it. \u00a0The universe is vast, mind-bogglingly vast. \u00a0There seems to be so much\u00a0empty\u00a0space, and so little to fill it. \u00a0The overwhelming majority of this space is cold, near absolute zero; and the warmth of life seems too sparse to not ask some hard questions. \u00a0The anthropic principle<\/a>, “that observations of the physical universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it,” also suggests in its vast mathematical\u00a0underpinnings\u00a0that these vast amounts of space may be necessary for life to exist. \u00a0Also, humans, and human consciousness, is fittingly right in the middle of the logarithmic scale of the universe, between \u00a0the scale of subatomic “particles” and astronomical distances measured in light years. \u00a0Surely, this is an ideal perch for poets, equidistant from the mysterious\u00a0veil of\u00a0quantum wonders\u00a0uncertain\u00a0and the ponderous views of an apparently infinite universe. \u00a0And at the heart of it all, “get a job!” \u00a0And what a job the poets have: to fill the universe with poetry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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