Aubrey Lieberman Selected Poems and Essays

  The Foundation of Awe and the Fog of Reality Produced by Aubrey Lieberman with ChatGPT 5.0 turbo — September 2025 Wavicle is a word coined by quantum physicists a century ago. Wavicles don’t have simple properties like position and speed. When speed is determined, position cannot be, and vice versa. That’s what uncertainty means: reality itself is built upon probabilities that result in stable atoms and molecules. Without that, there’d be no matter, no life, no us. In the early 20th century, scientists learned that light (not only visible, but the entire electromagnetic spectrum) possesses both particle and wave like properties. To capture this duality, some began using the word wavicle. It emphasizes that the division into “wave” or “particle” is artificial; the true quantum entities are neither, but rather both. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle follows naturally: wavicles don’t carry precisely defined values of position and momentum simultaneously. This isn’t about limits of ...

  American Exceptionalism Produced by Aubrey Lieberman with ChatGPT 5.0 turbo — September 2025 I was privileged to listen to a podcast conversation between the theoretical physicist Sean Carroll and the constitutional lawyer and thinker Cass Sunstein during September 2025. The essay that follows is my mnemonic—a way of organizing, remembering, and expanding upon the themes they touched, refracted through my own experience and curiosity.^1 Footnote 1 It was quite common for 19th-century political thinkers and public intellectuals to draw analogies from cosmology and astronomy, and nature. See Nicholas Campion,  “Astronomy and Political Theory” (International Astronomical Union [IAU] Proceedings, 2011). Liberalism can be imagined as a field, one created by humans rather than discovered in nature, yet bearing structural resemblances to the physical fields that make the universe possible. Uncertainty is its defining characteristic, not a flaw but a fundamental property, much as qu...

  Touching the Sky Produced by Aubrey Lieberman with ChatGPT 5.0 turbo — September 2025 The speed of an orbiting satellite is given by the formula: v = √(GM / r). Here G is the gravitational constant, M the mass of Earth, and r the orbital radius. For the GPS satellites high above us, this works out to about 3.9 kilometers per second. Each carries an atomic clock, ticking with exquisite regularity, adjusted for relativity so that our maps and phones don’t drift into nonsense. These clock towers built with physics and mathematics are indeed as high as the sky. For a circular GPS orbit the speed is v = √(GM/r) and the period is T = 2π√(r³/GM), with GM = 3.986×10¹⁴ m³/s² and orbital radius r = R_E + h ≈ (6,371 + 20,200) km = 2.6571×10⁷ m. Plugging in: v ≈ √((3.986×10¹⁴)/(2.6571×10⁷)) ≈ 3.87×10³ m/s = 3.87 km/s. The period is T ≈ 2π√((2.6571×10⁷)³/(3.986×10¹⁴)) ≈ 4.31×10⁴ s ≈ 11.97 h, almost exactly half a sidereal day (~23.93 h), so a GPS satellite orbits about twice per sidereal day....

  Dust Even at their densest the clouds we know and love because of the Hubble the nebulae the gas and dust the lovely ghosts amongst the stars somewhere between the labeled galaxies  are emptier than any laboratory vacuum  ever generated on this earth But they are tens of light-years wide their total mass exceeding that  of ten thousand of suns Theirs is the substance  from which stars and planets  and asteroids and comets and all living things and all the things they live on or in or under or beside are made from  something from almost nothing Aubrey Lieberman 9/24/25

  Ripples in the moral ocean Energy and matter are interchangeable at scale and quite evenly distributed, so the very early universe was flat. Order increased as a result of these processes, the potential for disorder increasing proportionately, the entropic river in spacetime. The plasma evolved into fields and   subatomic particles and nucleogenesis, the formation of atomic nuclei, the combination of atoms from an ocean of energy, the molecular clouds sculpted by gravity, the matter of the hot galactic dust evolving into stars and planets, unevenly distributed into an expanse of incredible probabilities, the ripples on the great pond. The uneven distribution of order versus chaos results in at least some solar systems in which life may be sustained. We know of at least one such place, where a molecular code becomes so ordered and reliable that it is shared, with many variations, by all lifeforms on this particular planet, the one that only we call Earth. Procreation is neces...