Everything is from nothing
Nothing is where it began and where it will end
Cosmic nothing, which is vacuum
But nothing is an illusion
As much as everything eludes its truth
Since the vacuum is full of energy
Matter and anti-matter constantly attracting and repelling
A never-ending quantum cocktail party
Cycling through loops of creation and annihilation
I’ve been at parties like that
But the party to watch is the galaxy’s 100 billion stars
Aswirl in brilliant radiance but dancing darkly
Or standing back even further
100 billion galaxies sweetly raving on until the bitter end
Yet out of all this cosmic richness normal matter is rare
The fact of the matter is that out of all these stars
All this space and animated dust only 5 percent is normal matter
Which is hardly normal since fully 25 percent is dark matter
While the biggest elephant in the room is dark energy
Mysterious and opposed to gravity
Which is a law of nature so dark energy
Is cosmic anarchy
Expanding and accelerating exponentially
Leaving dark matter haloes clumped in the nevervoid
Never emitting light on any wavelength
Driving the formation of cosmic structure
Quantum space/time foam bubbling with cosmic inflation
Quantum energy fluctuating with tiny mass irregularities
Within the cosmic web
While we listen for echoes
Echoes of the big bang
Cosmic harmonics send microwaves everywhere
So that the memory of creation is all pervasive
As are echoes of small primordial perturbations that grew galaxies
In the long nights of early days
Quantum ripples that will never reach a further shore
Since the fabric of space and time keeps stretching
Further than a politician’s truth
Into nothing, which is the end
David Trudel © 2013
