Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784) famous author of A Dictionary\u00a0of the English Language published in 1755, wrote in the preface, \u201c I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are\u00a0daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.\u201d\u00a0My thoughts on reading that was what about all the other 21st\u00a0century stuff, words, and things describing the Big Bang and beyond?<\/p>\n
Words: Daughters of Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n Samuel Johnson called words \u201cthe daughters of earth\u201d Things: The Sons of Heaven<\/p>\n Samuel Johnson wrote \u201cthings are the sons of heaven\u201d Other Stuff: The Big Bang\u2026 and what\u2019s become of it<\/strong><\/p>\n Samuel Johnson knew nothing of the Big Bang and what\u2019s become of it Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784) famous author of A Dictionary\u00a0of the English Language published in…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-299039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299039","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=299039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nacknowledging that Earth must be their mother
\nthat is everything from sadness to madness to mirth
\nof course it must include every single baby brother.
\nThis family with millions of serious and joyful siblings
\nbetween whom there is lots of qualms and quibbling
\nimpacts words, packs a powerful punch and wallop
\nhelps all earthlings communicate, tweet, and gossip.
\nThese daughters have sisters and plenty of cousins
\ntheir relative families speak thousands of tongues
\nthousands of languages and dialects by the dozens
\ndictionaries define them, put them where they belong.
\nOh sisters wherefore art thou and what do you mean?
\nmake yourself understood, about meaning come clean.<\/p>\n
\nsome things are numbers, Arabic mathematicians gave us zero
\nwe now have a googleplex and lucky number seven
\narmies, wars, peace, love, all hail the conquering hero
\nand what indeed are a few of your favorite things?
\n\u201craindrops on roses\u201d, orchids, sashimi, puppies, kittens
\nthe joy of a babies laugh, sounds when the fat lady sings?
\nTinian hot pepper sauce, roast tom turkey with all the fixins
\na bird singing its heart out, flowers growing after a typhoon
\nreef fish, seaweed salad, crab legs from the Arctic ocean
\npressure and pencil points, eclipses of the sun and moon
\nmillions of meaningful things going through the motions
\nbillions of stars and galaxies from the heavens come
\nseen from our friendly blue planet with its life giving sun.<\/p>\n
\nan explosion in space and time, billions of light years later it still rolls
\nthe beginning of galaxies, stars, planets, how and where they fit
\nsurrounded by darkness, dark energy, dark matter, and black holes
\na few weeks ago we got the first composite picture of a black hole
\nit left the world of astrophysicists and cosmologists gawking
\nat last perhaps here is a glimpse of an invisible universal soul
\nproving correct theories of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
\nnow we have new \u2018words\u2019 to describe these \u2018things\u2019 celestial
\nway beyond Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler\u2019s imagination
\neven Isaac Newton\u2019s \u2018Principia Mathematica\u2019 would deem it special
\nconsidering event horizon, singularity, and darkness of the situation
\ncosmological theory predicts universal expansion to eternal darkness
\nuniverses being born constantly in bubbles, formation of a megaverse
\nso we now speed along a universal cosmic trail into the ultimate dark
\nfrom the Big Bang moment which created a great big cosmic spark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"