Dark Energy
They say dark energy’s pulling us apart —
that we can only hope to seize today
before the stars accelerate away
marooning each from each, poor lonely heart.
They say the temperature is going down
as we are flung out further to the void,
and when we pass that final asteroid,
we’ll know we’ve missed the last bus back to town.
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But no one really knows where this all ends.
How can they, if they can’t explain dark matter?
Or why the universe keeps growing fatter?
Or several other questionable trends,
like: might the cosmos simply boomerang?
Why does entropy just go one way?
How does gravity make spacetime sway?
And who could’ve lit the fuse on the Big Bang?
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From my latest collection, “The Heretical Physicist.” Now available on Amazon.
