complexity † i stand at the seashore, alone and start to think there are the rushing waves mountains of molecules each stupidly minding its own business trillions apart yet forming white surf in unison ages on ages before any eyes could see year after year thunderously pounding the shore as now for whom, for what ? on a dead planet with no life to entertain never at rest tortured by energy wasted prodigiously by the sun poured into space : a mite makes the sea roar deep in the sea all molecules repeat the patterns of one another till complex new ones are formed they make others like themselves and a new dance starts growing in size and complexity living things masses of atoms dna, protein dancing a pattern ever more intricate out of the cradle onto dry land here it is standing : atoms with consciousness matter with curiosity stands at the sea wonders at wondering : i a universe of atoms an atom in the universe ~ † richard feynman, "atoms with consciousness, matter with curiosity" courtesy of sean carroll 🙏 https://preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/09/04/atoms-with-consciousness-matter-with-curiosity/ cf : richard feynman, "the value of science." engineering and science, vol xix, december, 1955 https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1575/1/Science.pdf style inspired by Jordy The Ill, "The Breath Engine 4: Ritual of Inhalation" 🙏 https://suno.com/song/ba2f6b7d-7056-43d6-b905-1f86b91b30ec sound design by rjh and suno v6 illustration adapted by rjh and chat-gpt 6.1 sol (light) rf : https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/09/richard-feynman-poetry-science/ nb : an actual expert ⚛️ but i feel okay 🙂 it doesn't rhyme 😎 ... 🙏
