M-Theory Musings Poem by Harley White

What theory unifies forces, weak, strong,
With gravity— also, to which belong
All the string theories of why and because?
To answer these queries, M-theory does.

Proponents aver it offers clarity
As to the issue of singularity.—
Where there's a will there's a way,
So they say...

In the beginning our universe sprang
From membranes colliding to cause a Big Bang...
Hence matter and energy stem from vibrations of strings seen by seers
In a music of spheres.

One mode of vibration, or 'note', makes the string an electron,
Another a photon...
And what of Higgs-boson?

There's even a mode for the graviton, thought to have gravity's force.
So vibrating strings would then be the source
To create tiny articles which we call
Elementary particles— one and all.

Dimensions— four plus compactified seven—
Equal a total that's oddly eleven...
To wit, though string theories wound up at the tenth,
They had to add one more that's odd to the nth.

Do we have enough sense or senses extended
To fathom those p-branes M-theory intended
And get to the bottom of hyper spacetime
In this super multiverse theory sublime?

What sounding vibration
Strange seeming sensation
Might set the strings strumming
Or maybe branes humming
Is something to ponder,
One's whimsies to wander—

My mind like the wind evanescent can roam
O'er billowing waves and ineffable foam
With parallels plenty of our bubble home...

Thus I heard
M-theory's word.

Albeit in physics there's much knowledge base,
What waters of wisdom could ever embrace
Such cosmic curled places with hyperspace face?

Eerily far we've come to here
From bards' illusions yesteryear—
When heavens would sing lullabies,
With moon and stars to harmonize
Midst luminescent light display
That might have been the Milky Way
Overturning all its jars
In a shower of shooting stars...

How flimsy, fleeting, and fragile life seems,
In our floating realm like a land of dreams!

Amen— let poets lyricize yet
Sweeter reveries lest we forget
Dearer wonders perchance of yore
From whilom membranes nevermore
Where earthlings gazed at clearer skies
With yonders nearer to our eyes,
In a once upon a time divine
P-brane world of auld langsyne...