#rhodium
At the limit of light speed,
where matter manifests as bits
no bigger than a smidgeon, super small
but all at once conditions
at cosmic cloud base forming once
not here and there, but at that point, right then
all at once
when photons happened where no photons had been.
then, everything that ever slowed
to solid state reflection just
generated such stars
as we must just imagine growing so big as to explode,
into the vast emptiness of never yet been, emptiness,
spacetime room to expand and live and learn knowing
the stuff stars disintegrate into,
phosphorus and carbon
and all the metals unknown
to Adam and his get for a while.
Rose lensed eyes detected Rhodium, and later
discovered catalytic conversion results in Rhodium air.
Just now, on the doomsday clock, in Sagan's last minute
one curious impulse led one time into alchemical overload
so well-orchestrated a harmonia, in a bubble of us thinking this.
Well, we who have elementary curiosity granted imaginary
friends as real to one as to another, sitting round a fire,
stirring smithereens to flight,
listening
to old ones thinking
uncussing unknowns kept
too sacred to share with stupid kids, known now by any
with general internet access technical literacy, this lets
us learn how babies are made, or not, literally essential
intuition, see, we feel we once were storyless, whinging
sooks such as we perceive once more being born into war.
In the distance we leave being all the old ones say we were.
Today, we wake up in Gaza City, and we are as motherless
children free from old constraints, save growling hunger
and shivering cold.
-- stop to think yourself just four or five, alive, in Gaza city,
surviving all these months in a basement kitchen with drainage
and a drip and sacks and sacks of horded chicken feed.
Take your time, old
become, and far far away…
marching through the noise orchestrated,
harmless through quieting down, settle into rhythm,
ever learning, never to learn everything, as matters scale,
nanograms per liter, to know all of us are a little bit new.
No generation before us had discernible Rhodium in us,
used to be… using us to become discretely all ways otherwise.
Because we breathe catalyzed air, discretely infusing us as one
kind, a species totally dependent on learning forever just to live.
Suspicions sneaking by suggest the color Rhodium is named for.
We suddenly leave be so known most certainly, we are new creatures.
We, first with these electrified realized truths, adapted to good sense
where with any able to handle the truth are used for realizing good news.
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AI says:
If Earth were a nanoparticle in the "cosmic soup,"
the observable universe would be the "vat."
The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years across.
Earth's diameter is about 12,742 kilometers.
{Earth's circumference, so how far
from me to anyone is thinkably close}
Al answers instantly:
At the equator: Approximately 24,901 miles (40,075 km).
{fake the math, we are so very near each other}
The scale difference is so vast that
if the observable universe were shrunk
to the size of Earth, our planet would be reduced
to a size smaller than an atom—roughly 1/180th
of an atom's diameter.
So, the "vat" would contain the entire observable universe,
emphasizing Earth's near-infinitesimal scale within it.
And the squish brains of all of us happened to occur in this vat.
For all the good we may imagine doing, at scale.
All our brains on point in the universal vat.
Apr 26
Apr 26, 2026 at 11:26 AM UTC
For, lo! All now merges into Energy,
A wild mass of liquid Rhodium,
Incorruptible,
Wherefrom, behold ye!
A novel Frame of Body,
It rises again! It rises again!
Dazzlingly gleaming
Wi' thousand sacral wounds.
Dec 30, 2020
Dec 30, 2020 at 5:10 AM UTC