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Volume 9 Number 1, April 2008

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Farewell to One Who Stays Forever

By

Michael Larrass

 

We held our heads so proudly,

Strutting our mortality like the permanent update

of a permanently obsolete state of the art.

The Lagrangian, the Hamiltonian, the Superstring

like ever so many antennas of a firefly

attempting to illuminate the nearest darkness.

 

Then there was this memorable year 1957,

when the light fell into our hearts

through the window of science.

The theories suddenly became flesh and

revealed our essential nature: immortality.

The Unified Field was born among us.

The King of Peace told us to water the root.

 

Now that he has gone to his abode

from where all speech returns,

he remains with us forever.