{"id":295031,"date":"2019-03-06T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295031"},"modified":"2019-03-06T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:00:34","slug":"the-sky-above-the-mud-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-sky-above-the-mud-below\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Above, The Mud Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Galactic Operas by the Billions and Billions<br \/>\nBig Bang Boosters and Cosmological Roosters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Inspired by the evening skies of Tinian, and Anne Lynch Botta (1815 -1891) and her humorous poem \u201cTo An Astronomer.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 21st century cosmologists<br \/>\nand their many predecessors<br \/>\nwe should concentrate<br \/>\neven though their equations are<br \/>\nfor the most part incomprehensible<br \/>\nand difficult for us terrestrials<br \/>\nfor more LHC discoveries we must wait<br \/>\nfor them to find more Higgs bosons<br \/>\namong subatomic celestials<br \/>\nthey don\u2019t even need to see any skies<br \/>\npolluted, convoluted, black, or blue<br \/>\nor any old or new comets<br \/>\nor \u00a0supernovas and nebulae<br \/>\nthat come between us<br \/>\nwhen with satellite data<br \/>\nthey can sit the night through<br \/>\nand gaze at billions<br \/>\nand billions of galaxies<br \/>\nbillions of miles past Venus.<br \/>\nThank you scientists, physicists:<br \/>\nGreene, Carrol, Burnell, Linde,<br \/>\nFeynman, Fang, Higgs, Hawking,<br \/>\nEinstein, Copernicus, Galileo,<br \/>\nKepler, Brahe, Guth, Krauss,<br \/>\nAbe, Mori, Suzuki, Chandrasekhar,<br \/>\nand of course Sir Isaac Newton,<br \/>\nand thousands of others \u2026<br \/>\nwho have been stalking those<br \/>\nmoments before, during, and after<br \/>\nthe BIG BANG and beyond \u2026<br \/>\non which our origins and future<br \/>\nhang, and before we pass through<br \/>\nheaven\u2019s gates or evolve into<br \/>\ncompost and food for worms<br \/>\nlook up the universe awaits<br \/>\nand as our world turns enjoy<br \/>\nthe dance in the darkness<br \/>\nlisten to the galactic operas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mud, a Minor Metamorphosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Inspired by Amy Steiger\u2019s poem, \u201cI love mud,\u201d posted on Feb. 28, 2019 on Facebook. Amy Steiger, thanks for the inspirations on some muddy situations. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I dig dirt, not so much dust, just plain dirt gets my trust<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t bother me when I get some good clean dirt<br \/>\nclinging to my work pants, shirt, or hands doing work<br \/>\nI dug dirt planting trees in fire burns in Oregon and B.C.<br \/>\nsomeone else will have to dig it when they bury me<br \/>\ndug vegetable gardens in our western hillside backyard<br \/>\nthrough frozen muddy wet clay that even thawed was hard<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mind mud, as a kid I made many designer mud pies<br \/>\nof random shapes and sizes, and never kept one of them hid<br \/>\neven mud on the floor in the kitchen or on my shoes and boots<br \/>\nmuddy tracks to and from the door, rain and dirt in cahoots<br \/>\nmessy mucky mud gets caked on and all over the place<br \/>\ndrying in the sun gets well baked on some kids burned face<br \/>\nfrom the stars and skies above to the earth\u2019s mud below<br \/>\nour universe, our world , and all of us continue to grow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galactic Operas by the Billions and Billions Big Bang Boosters and Cosmological Roosters Inspired by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[401],"class_list":["post-295031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}