We are curving,
avoiding life’s black holes,
skipping star-encrusted puddles,
bending light through space and time,
taming swirls of cosmic inky rhyme,
producing poetry of gravity,
predicting relativity.
Kim M. Russell, 30th September 2018
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Physics with Björn: Gravity and space-time curvature
Björn is back to inspire us – or scare us – with physics. He reminds us that we covered the theory of special relativity a while ago, which resulted in some cool poems. This time he has focused on the general theory of relativity and Einstein’s prediction of gravity as curvature of space-time.
He explains that, since light has no mass, we would expect it to be unaffected by gravity. But if gravity affects space and time, light is also affected, since the straight path that light would normally take would bend. This can be been seen when light from far away passes close to a massive object such as black hole.
Björn would like us to think of things like black holes, space-time curvature and gravity, and come up with a new poem that has at least some connection to the theme. I like the way the continuous form curves in a poem.
writing in north norfolk 
I like the way you took the prompt to inspire your own poetry curve.
This kind of stuff fascinates me. I’m going to have to remember this prompt to explore sometime on my own. 🙂
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Thanks Merril! 😉
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Wallace Stevens would surely agree! The poem resists the black hole in us almost successfully, its what curves the song so … I sting, therefore I fling. Well done.
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Thank you, Brendan!
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The black holes are avoided and relativity predicted in your words. I love how you fashioned this verse through a poetic understanding of its own craft. I loved “taming swirls of cosmic inky rhyme”.
-HA
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Thank you, Anmol!
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skipping star-encrusted puddles
I like what you did in this line – such a huge leap from the cosmos to the smallest puddle and all connected together in space and time. Lovely!
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Thank you, Kerry!
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I do like your image of travelling and avoiding the traps of black holes and gritty stars… maybe life is like steering a starship to reality.
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Thank you, Bjorn.
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I like the reminder in here, Kim. As poets, we are meant to bend minds, touch the untouchable.
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I like how you join together in the puddle and in the sky. I like how you remind us to touch the untouchable
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Thanks Toni!
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I love this! Avoiding life’s black holes…yup…I’ll take that too!
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Thank you, Viv!
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