Brahma

[Erthona]

Brahma
 
Four-three-two-one:one-two-three-four
stability, within instability.
 
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/cern-...al-is-this
 
erthona
 
 
©2016

[Magpie]

Oh Oh!! 

They won't be happy in the orient tonight... Tetraphobia

Whereas in the occident finding a Tetraquark is much the same as finding a four leaf clover... but I'm only just saying that because I'm try to divert people's attention from the fact that CERN is in the process of opening a gate to hell.

Funnily enough I somehow stumbled across a short story today called 'The Mathematician's Nightmare' by Bertrand Russell in which a mathematician meets all the numbers and in introducing itself number four says this:

"4: But for me nothing would be four-square. There would be no
honesty in the world. I am the guardian of the Moral Law."

Which is fair enough from 4 until 5 comes along and goes for the big sell:

"5: I am the number of fingers on a hand. I make pentagons and
pentagrams. And but for me dodecahedra could not exist; and, as
everyone knows, the universe is a dodecahedron. So, but for me,
there could be no universe."

As for the rest of the story, well... if you ever need to unnerve a physicist just mention that you know 137.

Thanks for the link to the article, it's been a while since I caught up on what's happening at the Large Hadron Collider

Mark

[Magpie]

Dale,

I have only just discovered that there is such a thing as the 'Stability - Instability Paradox' which sheds a bit more light on your poem, so with that in mind I'll do what I should of done yesterday and comment on the poem.

I understand why you have chosen Brahma and the connection with the number 4, however I may be missing something else important as I don't fully understand the idea with the first line and the four-three-two-one count. The colon makes it appear as though it could be a ratio which I'm sure is not your intention.

Considering the fact that I just told you that I discovered the 'Stability - Instability Paradox' merely moments ago then the fact that I'm about to say that the last line seems cliche may sound a bit strange. I get the idea of the paradox and the fact that the word 'stability' is found in the word 'instability' but it comes over as a bit obvious. Although my possible suggestion may have took too far away in the opposite direction and it sounds a bit like a cryptic crossword clue... but something along the lines of...
      
Siva within passivity/passiveness or Passiveness around Siva

Or something along those lines... I may have gone too cryptic.

Thanks for the read, it's kept me thinking and I'm glad I could come back to it. It was a bit ignorant of me yesterday to not comment on the actual content.

Cheers,

Mark

[Erthona]

Mark,

Yeah, nothing so cryptic. I was merely referring to the main Hindu gods that are likened to the legs of an elephant. I can't remember on hand the two in the middle or their places, but Shiva is one leg, thus destruction (instability) and Brahma is four legs. This of course at a macroscopic level is archetypal. The paradox is that the 4 discovered in the LHC is the most unstable. One has to wonder, if at the quantum level everything is mirror reverse...at least in a twisted sort of way. Anyway, the poem, such as it is was more to draw attention to the article than anything else.

Thanks for the comments,

dale

[RiverNotch]

Dammit! Brahma, four bit quarkpound, four to four, all encompassing -- now I get it. That took a while. Not getting anything else, though -- I don't see the whole MAD paradox in here, since a transient particle, based on my meager, meager understanding of, hehe, chemistry, shouldn't make so much of a political difference, so my guess is that the little pun was a meek invention instead. No real secrets of the universe here, discounting the mysterious, which, sure, the body focuses on, but it's a paradox [against the scientific nature of the article] one can easily make light of, seeing as how the body is only two lines, while the article, and so the resulting train of thought, is a thousand.

[Erthona]

Well we could talk in runes, but I think that would be equally inscrutable



dale