{"id":8964,"date":"2005-07-28T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/07\/28\/cosmic-gall\/"},"modified":"2005-07-28T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T22:10:08","slug":"cosmic-gall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/cosmic-gall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Gall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured, for the first poem on the new blog, why not go for something topical?  By <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/physics\/laureates\/1995\/illpres\/cosmic-call.html\">John Updike<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neutrinos they are very small.<br \/>\nThey have no charge and have no mass<br \/>\nAnd do not interact at all.<br \/>\nThe earth is just a silly ball<br \/>\nTo them, through which they simply pass,<br \/>\nLike dustmaids down a drafty hall<br \/>\nOr photons through a sheet of glass.<br \/>\nThey snub the most exquisite gas,<br \/>\nIgnore the most substantial wall,<br \/>\nCold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,<br \/>\nInsult the stallion in his stall,<br \/>\nAnd, scorning barriers of class,<br \/>\nInfiltrate you and me! Like tall<br \/>\nAnd painless guillotines, they fall<br \/>\nDown through our heads into the grass.<br \/>\nAt night, they enter at Nepal<br \/>\nAnd pierce the lover and his lass<br \/>\nFrom underneath the bed \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; you call<br \/>\nIt wonderful; I call it crass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we now know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps.uci.edu\/~superk\/\">they do have mass<\/a>; fortunately, poetry does not have a tradition of submitting errata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured, for the first poem on the new blog, why not go for something topical? By John Updike. Neutrinos they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just a silly ball To them, through which they simply pass, Like dustmaids down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}