Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Implications of Maths

The equations of interference in a single particle,
Are the additions of clock hands and magnitudes,
Of complex numbers again, easy to tease out detail
When you’ve seen them moving the earth once before,
In those false colours, like the DNA of Beethoven,
Dragged screaming from its elemental hiding place,
Processed, turned from the bases into system music.

We could code everything with a single number
Of infinite precision, a bar of specific length,
Defined down to the quantum distance, a cosmos,
The total extent of all known and unknown things
In this particular path through sum over history.
The belief in this clockwork came before clocks,
And now clocks define its indistinct replacement.

Every projectile studied calculus and follows paths
Through space that only intellect can totally define.
We thought it gravity but some fracture hides in there,
A message from god, ignored in the hope of deletion,
Telling tales on the machine, whispering “look here”,
Until a cloud of the wrecked pieces of Universes,
Showed us the way through every infinite path.

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