Lineweaver’s Mystery Tale (Rev.) Poem by Margaret Alice

Vacuum is filled
with elementary
particles popping
in-and-out
of existence

Energy is cosmological
constant preventing
contraction countering
gravity’s attraction, thus
we have acceleration

Space is expanding
mysteriously, the
missing mass for
critical density
is held as energy

Lineweaver wove the
strands of this mystery
tale created by astronomy
into an account
of the age

Of the universe:
13.4 billion years
give or take a
few billion more –
weaving, weaving,

Weaving all the theories,
observations and dreams
of the Key Project Team
into a fantasy for the
21st century

The Big Bang occurred 13.4
million years ago, though
Wendy Freedman and Jeremy Mould
insisted it be 14
billion years ago

But
Lineweaver
decided to weave
his tale
conservatively…

“Aeons – The Search for the Beginning of Time” by Martin Gorst,
published by Fourth Estate, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
in Great Britain,2001 – pp.268-274