When you find the restless boson
touch it gently in the depth
seek the wonder ever further
beyond the forest prose of cables.
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Had to google ‘boson':
I liked your journey into the reverse.
Sorry, the hazards of being married to a physicist…
A very original subject!
Thank you, Rosemary. To be honest, I didn’t have a lot of pictures to fit the prompt, so had to make do with what I had.
boson is a cool word…i looked it up as well…thinking first of a ships boson…small for small you know….there is beauty in the every day..even the forests of cables…
I am fascinated by the invisible, almost imperceptible particles our world is made up of. And the people who spend a lifetime searching for them…
The details of the details – a wonderful view of things ~
Maria Sofia – What an effective way to talk about seeing details and finding beauty in unexpected places. Impressive!
I always feel there is something just beyond the science – perhaps it’s poetry, perhaps it’s more spiritual…
Ah, clever. I am readng a book about cosmology right now–so interesting. Thanks. k.
It is a fascinating topic, even though I don’t understand most of it. (Not for want of my husband’s willingness to explain!)
I have to admit I had to look up boson as well found this one to be interesting..but, I think I’ll take my forest in the form of leafy trees..
Sorry, I didn’t realise ‘boson’ is not part of everyday vocabulary, as my physicist husband talks about it constantly… There is a forbidding beauty of the giant detectors – a pinnacle of human achievement.
no need to apologize..I learned a new word so that is always a good thing..:)
loved the reference to depth… fit while with the picture
Depth both literal and metaphorical – those tunnels are about 100 m underground in places. Thank you!
mind the spin – I’m glad in physics there’s room for poetry
Interesting insight you have in there.
To me your poem shows that there is wonder everywhere, even in places we might not first look.
Exactly! Thank you, Mary.
Higgs boson is called the God particle. Beyond is spiritual..the existence of a something too big=God!
Mind you, never called the God particle by the physicists themselves… But yes, there is always something beyond, that’s what I like to think!
Very cool piece!
Nice shot..and provocative micro poem to go with ;)
And all bathed in a golden light (not sure how that happened…).
Who would have thought there was art and poetry in such a technical environment? Well penned!
There’s art and poetry everywhere, we just need to look for it hard enough. Thank you!
Wonderful Marina..you have made poetry with the Boson particles !! amazing..
Love the picture of the CERN too.. :-)
There is actually an attempt to sonificate physics, called ‘The Music of the Particles’. This is what the decay of a Higgs boson might sound like:
http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_higgs/Higgs.html
Thanks for the link..will check it out.. :-)
I learned a lot by reading the comments. Fascinating poem and photo. The world of physics has come a long way since I studied it in College.
Did you, Victoria? How fascinating! I wanted to study it myself, but then wisely decided to befriend or marry physicists instead.
how cool…never heard the word boson before…so you went to the small parts as well for your micro poetry… well worth seeking further… finding beauty in the small everyday things..
Yes, they’re about 99.9% certain that they’ve narrowed down the area where the Higgs Boson might be, so we’re really close to nailing it. But I hope that doesn’t mean it will be stuck to paper like a butterfly in a collection.
I love the last line “beyond the forest prose of cables”! Very cool poem with an equally cool picture.
Thank you so much – not that ‘prose’ is bad, by any means, of course!
Ah.. deep in those cables lies the trails of the evasive little boson… oh yes very good… (and of course I heard what a boson is)..
Ha, love that line, wish I’d thought of it!
there is something…I don’t know…whimsical about this piece which seems in such contrast to the scienciness (sorry for the made up word) of ‘boson’. yet it works very well.
Yes, I think whimsy is a much maligned quality in science. They need a bit more fun and dreams!
Ooh, lovely! A poem about scientific things – how wonderful!
Great photo and interesting pairing of science and poetry. Well done.
Love this. So well done!
I was with Brian and thought of a ships boson, such an unusual and different take on the prompt. Very clever, may I add.
There you (and Brian) have me, you see: I know nothing about ships, having lived in the past and now in a landlocked country.
They are officers on ships in charge of sails,rigging etc, that’s okay though perhaps we are showing too much of our age :-)
Fascinating – the expected piece lost in a moving forest, and what to think of it now we have? Well said!