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Diary of an Alien Dervish
(Astrobiology Sonnet 2978)
I've descended from exploding stars,
and you think you with your
monkey mind can erase me,
you can own all the rockets, all the satellites,
all the armies, robots, and all the banks,
still you cannot dampen my nerve fibers
charged with lightning from the heavens -
you can keep your stoneage starcharts,
there is starlight bursting in my arteries,
there is comet-dust in my veins
that I haven't even used yet -
I'm a record of the universe,
I
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― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
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In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.
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