Mushroom Rock, Chiricahuas – photo by Kate Rauner
This poem was inspired by Richard Feynman’s book Six Easy Pieces, Lecture 5: Theory of Gravitation
“Some major mysteries in physics have frustrated great minds for decades, including the nature of … gravity, for which no particle has been found.” http://bit.ly/11t0HiC
Falling
by Kate Rauner
Everything is falling, always falling everywhere.
It all seems so familiar, we don’t see the mystery there.
What holds the sun together, what keeps the planets bound,
What pulls the tides through oceans keeps my feet upon the ground.
It is the shape of space-time; through four dimensions fall.
I see the real question now.
Is it a force at all?
Kate's Science - Real and Fantastic 