Light In The Dark?

Cherry

By Mangone

Mon, 27 Apr 2009
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At last it was finished the world's biggest gun.
They had a big party, anticipating the fun,
It would smash bits together like never before.
Their last had been 'conflict' but this one was 'War'

It would conqueor the enemy, it would shine a new light
It was the ultimate weapon to aid in the fight.
But the locals were worried it might just explode
flatten their houses and ruin the road.

"Who are we fighting that we need guns like this?
could it open a door - into the abyss?"

"We fight against ignorance, we fight the unknown,
our theories are sound - you don't need to moan."

"You tell us we're in danger; the village might burn
we must stop having fires, yet you in your turn
plan to burn all our wood to make enough steam
to power your contraption and live out your dream!"

"You must sacrifice for science, you must bow to our god.
You can't understand, you're an ignorant clod
With our growing arsenal we will soon have the power
To laugh at you fools from our Ivory Tower.
Road blocks to progress that's all that you are,
you look at your feet while we look afar!"

"You might look afar but the problems are here
it's not the paths to progress but the pitfalls we fear,
We think that your foundations are rickety at best.
Can't you find different ways to put them to test?"

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Comments

Submitted by Chi Girl on
Fantastic and inspìring http://www.myspace.com/quicksilvermirrorlake http://qivolution.googlepages.com/home http://shca75.blogspot.com/ http://bhikka.blogspot.com/ http://evolutiontoascension.blogspot.com/

ChiGirl

Submitted by Chi Girl on
Fantastic and inspìring http://www.myspace.com/quicksilvermirrorlake http://qivolution.googlepages.com/home http://shca75.blogspot.com/ http://bhikka.blogspot.com/ http://evolutiontoascension.blogspot.com/

ChiGirl

Submitted by Mangone on
Thanks Carla!

Submitted by yrene on
I love this piece, Mangone. Oh by the way, I find your name quite unique! "At last it was finished the world's biggest gun. They had a big party, anticipating the fun," -The first lines had me hooked. Although I feel like the 'gun' is used as a metaphor of some sort of power or superiority. ..My dad is all about guns. Shooting is his favorite sports. "You might look afar but the problems are here it's not the paths to progress but the pitfalls we fear" -I immediately thought of something when I read these lines. I think having a gun, or a power of any sort is a danger in itself. I remember how my father keeps his guns in the house and that simply puts us in a bit more danger than usual. My father might look afar but the problems are really with him and his obsession with guns. Anyhoo, that's my personal interpretation of it. "You tell us we're in danger; the village might burn we must stop having fires, yet you in your turn plan to burn all our wood to make enough steam to power your contraption and live out your dream!" -This part especially got me thinking of so many things related with guns and abuse of power. I've witnessed some who use guns and power to get what they want. Malevolent is the word for it all. Oops this is already long. I best be going. Thanks for sharing your gift. Have a nice day. (^_^) best regards, yReNe

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best regards,
yReNe

Submitted by Mangone on
Thanks for that yReNe - it revealed a whole new side to my poem that I had not considered! Thanks to both David and Carole too! So how's the great gun going? I told them to decorate with smileys and good luck fridge magnets but would they listen... They've installed the new safety systems and are testing the magnets... and theyre off. http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/?name=CERNBulletin

Submitted by DavidMcAuley on
Solid!

Submitted by C_A_JONEStechno on
C A Jones Excellent.

Carole

Submitted by Anusha_J_Rohom on
This quite succintly reflects the reality everywhere... people in power exploiting it for God knows what good while actual issues go unaddressed. Good job.

Submitted by Mangone on
Thank you Anusha!

Submitted by Mangone on
Well, its up to full power at last... the next step should be smashing :O) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8576545.stm

Submitted by Mangone on
As Jude has just reported on the Discussion thread the record breaking collisions at 3.5 TeV were made just after 1PM. http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2010/14/News%20Articles/12464...

Submitted by C_A_JONEStechno on
I read on a link somewhere that the scientists think the future doesn't want the collider to work so it keeps sabotaging it. Personally I don't understand why they want to re-create the big bang. Except that Nietzsche was right and its all circular. Set in stone. We may be about to find out how the big bang happened, but we may not be here to enjoy that knowledge. If they make a big bang then it all just starts again, from the beginning...

Carole

Submitted by Mangone on
I'm not that certain there ever was a Big Bang, Carole. It's still only a theory despite the hype. What went Bang and where did that 'what' come from? :O) Buddhist's believe in an eternal cycle of a Universe expanding and contracting - like a heartbeat perhaps.

Submitted by C_A_JONEStechno on
Well, the Collider is trying to go Big Bang! It doesn't take much imagination to think that as it replicates the Big bang, we all pop out of existence and come back in the Big Bang from whence everything came... ad infinitum

Carole

Submitted by Mangone on
Monday, 17 May 2010 The Large Hadron Collider could soon begin a search for new sub-atomic particles... but Dr Weidberg said the LHC would probably not be sensitive enough to conduct searches for the Higgs boson until 2011 at the earliest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8685541.stm Strange beauty and charm eh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since scientists build, calibrate and interpret the data from their machines all based on their models - is it any surprise that their findings usually appear to confirm their predictions? Surely, we need a new paradigm for the 21st century which is not based on the local rules discovered my Newton! Newton is fine for engineers but not for explaining the Universe beyond our solar system. Essentially a method of seeing matter as a 'dance' of mass and energy, of tendencies and compulsions, of spins and twirls, of ‘passion’ and ‘form’.

Submitted by Mangone on
Is this wise? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10255242.stm

Submitted by Mangone on
Banging Away ;O) The LHC smashes beam collision record. Mike Lamont, a theoretical physicist explained that collision rates depend on the bunch intensity - the number of protons in a bunch. "Now we will be trying to increase the number of those bunches, and then probably in August we will spend quite a period of time just banging away and trying to get as many collisions as we can." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10430234.stm

Submitted by Savx on
It's a really interesting poem, I really like it =) Keep up the awesome work! Cherry well deserved =) Savannah

Sav

Submitted by Mangone on
Thanks Savannah. You have a lovely name which it seems can describe a grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

Submitted by Savx on
Hahaha, Thank you =) Savannah

Sav