The Rise and Fall of Gravity

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The Rise & Fall of Gravity

 

Copyright by K. B. Robertson 1979 - 2007 All rights reserved.

 

A light sided approach to the ponderous subject of General Relativity.

 

Space-time Gravity Is The 4th Dimension:

 

For more cost free rhythm and reason, please consider a season that resonantly sings beyond theories of strings.

 

From Euclid's straight line shine to Isaac's golden apple and its geodesic grapple.

 

A catchy little tune that most anyone can croon, by the curved silvery light of Albert's expeditionary moon.

 

Dr. Einstein's waking inspiration may yet sweep the sleeping nation at the slightest provocation.

 

An unrecognized solution that could start a peaceful revolution. Big Bang Gangology’s further confirmation of their favorite libation - more denial and debate with the orphaned Steady State.

 

Behold Albert's resurrected smart bomb with enduring aplomb. Benevolent bomb leaves all the buildings and people intact; takes 4-D space-time to get them back on track .

Asked the teacher what gravity was, an' all he said is what gravity does. Said I wanna know why, not how things fall. Teacher said nobody knows that one at all.

 

Asked the people on the 6 O'Clock news; they said on that we have no views. Same thing happened in a physics lesson - a picture of Newton gave a puzzled expression.

 

Still wanted to know what gravity is, so I went outside and continued the quiz. Asked a mathematician and he took all day saying gravity is numbers. So I ignited one and went into suspension, tintanambulating beyond the 3rd dimension. The answer appeared as a gentle kiss, so I wrote another poem and it goes like this...

 

Poetry for all times and places, poetry for all rhymes and spaces. Where are the dimensions and where are they not, boundless dimensions of color and thought; infinite dimensions of cold and of hot. But countless dimensions of space there are not.

 

Dimensions of music, of wine and of thee, of these there are many, but of space only three.

 

A 3-D you anna 3-D me, munching 3-D apples from a 3-D tree. 3-D up an' 3-D down, 3-D apples to the 3-D ground. A 3-D fall anna 3-D 'thump'. 3-D sugar inna 3-D lump.

 

3-D east an' 3-D west, Sir Isaac Newton did his 3-D best. 3-D universe, 3-D math - 3-D projectiles onna 3-D path. 3-D smooth and 3-D rough; 4-D Einstein singin' "Three ain't enough."

 

4-D amplifier and 4-D gear, singin' 4-D lyrics into 3-D ears. 4-D guitar an' 4-D strings. Albert's 4-D song about 4-D things.

 

3-D professors onna 3-D jag, stuffin 4-D physics in a 3-D bag.

 

If yer lookin' for a message in here, it's of 4-D headaches from a 3-D beer. 3-D professors tellin' 3-D lies, gettin' 3-D money for the Nobel Prize.

 

3-D scientists onna 3-D pension, refusing to recognize, space-time gravity is the 4th dimension.

 

(Variations on this thought provoking vignette appear else-where on the net. Copyright 1979, by K. B. Robertson. All rights reserved. With acknowledgement for authorship, may be reproduced and distributed for educational, recreational and non commercial purposes. Condensed book <not for sale> freely accessible at http://forums.delphiforums.com/EinsteinGroupie )