{"id":388134,"date":"2023-03-28T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=388134"},"modified":"2023-03-28T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:06:09","slug":"march-right-out-write-call-and-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/march-right-out-write-call-and-response\/","title":{"rendered":"March Right Out Write \u2018Call and Response\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don\u2019t understand quantum mechanics.\u201d <\/em>
\n\u2014Richard P. Feynman, professor of theoretical physics<\/p>\n

For my last entry in March 2023 during International and CNMI Women\u2019s Month, here is a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). She was a reclusive 19th-century poet who was born, lived, and died in the house she was born in. Interested readers can find many books and articles online written about her. She had only 10 poems published in her lifetime from over 1,800 written.<\/p>\n

She wrote her poems down on paper and hand-sewed them into book form, which were found after she passed away. I have left the poem as she wrote\u00a0it with capitalization and punctuation intact and in place.<\/p>\n

This poem, \u201cForever \u2013 is composed of Nows \u2013\u201d was mentioned on a World Science Festival TV program hosted by Brian Greene (available on You Tube), the host of a series of Science lectures on current cosmology: the theory of relativity, the Big Bang, particle physics, and quantum theory.<\/p>\n

A panel member, either Leonard Susskind (father of string theory)\u00a0or Alan Guth (theoretical physicist and cosmologist), when asked to define \u201cquantum theory,\u201d said this poem by Emily Dickinson was close to a definition of it. I looked the poem up and accepted it as a \u201ccall\u201d for understanding space-time continuum, which I\u2019ve been studying since reading Stephen Hawking\u2019s A Brief History of Time,\u201d both the original and revised versions. Emily would have known nothing about that, but she was thinking and writing about literal time, space, and the future.<\/p>\n

Most leading 20th\u00a0and 21st-century cosmology scientists and particle physicists say that Quantum Theory, when it may be combined with Einstine\u2019s Theory of Relativity, will be the \u201cTheory of Everything.\u201d Many are working on it but most agree that Quantum Theory is very difficult to define. Interested readers may check out more about our universe with books written by Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, and Stephen Hawking, among others, to learn about our universe.<\/p>\n

They may also check out wonderful unrelated poetry of Emily Dickinson.<\/p>\n

This is a \u201ccall and response\u201d poem. That is a group of poems that contain an earlier poem\u2014the \u201ccall\u201d\u2014and one or more poems written in either \u201cresponse\u201d to\u00a0or as variations of the earlier poem. So here is Emily Dickinson \u201ccalling\u201d out from the 19th\u00a0century and my \u201cresponse\u201din the 21st\u00a0century. I composed my poem as I read her poem line by line. For me she is the Queen of Outer Space.<\/p>\n

Forever \u2013 is Composed of Nows\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

By EMILY DICKINSON<\/p>\n

Forever – is composed of Nows \u2013
\n\u2018Tis not a different time \u2013
\nExcept for the Infiniteness \u2013
\nAnd Latitude of Home \u2013<\/p>\n

From this \u2013 experienced Here –
\nRemove the Dates \u2013 to These \u2013
\nLet Months dissolve in Further Months \u2013
\nAnd Years \u2013 exhale in Years \u2013<\/p>\n

Without Debate \u2013 or Pause \u2013
\nOr Celebrated Days \u2013
\nNo different our years would be
\nFrom Anno Dominies<\/p>\n

Quantum Neverland Forever<\/strong><\/p>\n

Never decomposes at a steady pace inside space
\nits Longitude curves inside all universal light
\nto that proof there light years move from those
\nminutes that push to solve no less no more<\/p>\n

Light years inhale and exhale ahead of time and go
\non in a daily basis they flow through with photons
\neverything quickly changes as string theory ranges
\nin a microscopic Planck length an Annus Horribilis<\/p>\n

Some things we\u2019ll never know but we have to grow
\ntiny particles responsible for what we think and do
\nconsciousness is particles moving through our mind
\nwith an exquisite arrangement as opposed to a rock<\/p>\n

Thus we receive all these in constant communion
\nas particles construct the very state of our union.<\/p>\n

***
\nJoey aka Pepe Batbon Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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