GUTs

The Grand Unification Theory:
at extremely high energy
everything becomes One.

I stare
at a rock wall
ten thousand feet
of red layers
fill all space
before me.

Particles
spin and polarize
everything becomes real
when differences are measured.

The smell of death
rises from a corpse
in the first heat
of spring.

Each point in space
is a simple harmonic oscillator
even a vacuum
has a vastly complex structure.

A massive star
explodes
in a burst of energy
ten seconds long
that travels
thirteen billion
light years
through 95 percent
of all existence
of all time and space
through all forms
of matter
energy
and momentum
to meet us
four hundred years
after Galileo
first gazed
through the lens
of a telescope.

This star
born of an infant universe
was thirty times
the size of our sun
one million years old
it died
600 million years
after energy
coalesced in one
Big Bang.

This universe
this home
feeds on dark energy
that expands
while the rock
before me rises
inch by inch
second by second
into something
greater than itself.

When one of a pair
of particles
is pulled into a
Black Hole
everything becomes real.

Zero point energy
and spontaneous symmetry.

At extremely high energy
everything becomes one.

My wife is turning
sixty.