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X 3.2

Posted by on Sep 25, 2014 in Musings, Poetry, Science | 0 comments

X 3.2

On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material erupted into space.  This image, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the breathtaking coronal mass ejection (CME)       93 million miles 745 miles per second It would almost seem In the blink of an eye You travel on your solar flare Arriving at my doorstep Before I’ve had time To put down my book Or earmark the page Explaining E = mc2 And other important theories Of the Universe But the event at hand Is much more pressing And appears to be based On the Laws of Physics Whereby a plume Of plasma will eject From a superheated Celestial body However, these particles Won’t take three days To reach us here For we have already been scorched LiNdA...

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Sun Dial

Posted by on May 3, 2014 in Science, Slider | 0 comments

Sun Dial

And the time sundials tell, may be minutes and hours. But it may just as well be seconds and sparkles, or season and flowers. No, I don’t think of time as just minutes and hours . . .

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Wave at Saturn

Posted by on May 2, 2014 in Musings, Science, Slider | 0 comments

Wave at Saturn

“We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.” – Cyrano de Bergerac

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