Ponder

 Ponder


At the unimaginable minuteness

of the Planck scale

there may be a granularity

an ultimate cul-de-sac

where time does not exist

in which a quantum fluctuation

may result in a phase change

into the constituents

that will become atoms

bound by nuclear forces within

and electromagnetism and gravity 

in the boundless jelly 

of spacetime without


The origin of the potential energy 

which becomes a universe

remains a mystery

a point at which

the equations end


Why there is something

rather than nothing

remains the enigma

of all enigmas

posed for the record

by Parmenides

almost 3000 years ago


An entropic gradiant 

drives the universe

from order to disorder

and back again


Memory and time

emerge from the convergence

of entropy with consciousness

consciousness resulting 

from Darwinian evolution


Intelligence emerges 

from consciousness

and enables the formulation

of questions of this nature

of which this one is

the ultimate imponderable


Aubrey Lieberman

2/10/24


Footnote: the etymology of ponder shares with it the origin of the word pendulum, both of which are derived from early French (from a verb meaning to weigh something), pendular clocks replacing the sundials in the human wrestling match with time, the tyranny of the hour of William James. Although there is Einsteinian energy mass equivalence in the emergent universe, hours and pounds have no meaning whatsoever in the context of the inertial or transitional moment between the black hole and the white (colloquially the big bang, a silent explosion of photons)

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