A Hundred Million Stars Poem by Margaret Alice

A hundred million stars
in a rotating, disk-shaped
spiral galaxy

Thousands of galaxies
in clusters of thousands
forming larger superclusters

Structures larger yet
many millions of light-
years in extent

Matter is a foam of
soapy bubbles - vast
areas of empty space

Walled by myriads of
galaxies – yet the bright
stars in the sky

Represent less than
one per cent of
all creation

Most matter being
alien, invisible,
far beyond

The scope of physical
experience


Georges Smoot & Keay Davidson
“Wrinkles Iin Time – The Imprint of Creation”
Abacus, UK,1995 – pp.11,12


Space-Time Fully Curved

Said Einstein,
gravitational attraction
is due to

space being curved
not forces all mysterious
between the various objects

space being warped
by planetary mass
curves all paths

motion that is uniform
shows law of inertia is
active in space-time

that is fully
curved

Smoot & Davidson
“Wrinkles Iin Time – The Imprint of Creation”
Abacus, UK,1995 – pp.31