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Noisy Neighbours

It seems quite a nice planet, sitting there in the warm zone of a comfortable, stable, if not particularly exciting star. It is the third one out from the star, and has a large solitary moon, which I’m sure must look truly beautiful from the surface. But the dominant species are ill behaved, and above all, they are very NOISY! They live the religion of the bomb, which they construct in vast numbers from small annoying bangs to the well packaged but brutal reality of the atom. Even worse they… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on November 20, 2008 at 7:36pm — 2 Comments

Bang.

I think I want to be a Large Hadron Collider. Because I want to see it. For that brief tiny fraction of a second, a time so short that by comparison the blink of an eye is an eternity, I want to see it. I want to see the beginning. I want to see that bright light. I want to see it all start up.

Added by Bob Clay on November 14, 2008 at 7:46pm — 2 Comments

Old Cliché

It is not the world I know, but some other far stranger place. A vast plain stretches away in every direction and since there is no curve to this landscape, the horizon seems to dither with infinity. There are hills that could be a thousand miles away, or only ten. The sky is a deep cobalt blue, the ground as black as the devil's heart, but there is a glimmer of warm red in those distant hills. An old cliché comes to mind; where am I, why am I here, where am I going ? My answer, such as it is,… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on November 8, 2008 at 10:02pm — 3 Comments

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