A Presentation on my Inquiry into Quantum Fluctuation: The “First Beings”

“Their existence predates the birth of time

In one Planckth of a second they live out their lives

For one minuscule moment they come into being

And they see all that was or ever could be

In that instance they know all there is to know

They perceive everything that Future could hold

On the tip of the tiniest grain of time

They live out their hypothetical lives

They experience every possibility

They are atom and star, they are you and me

Then they disappear back into the foam

Back into the deepest darkest unknown

They are born in pairs and together they die

Like a candle doused before it can shine

Perhaps there is no reason to persist

When one knows all things and has seen all there is

But once in ten thousand eternities

They fulfill the greatest of mysteries

At that moment one dies and the other survives

And has all of time to wonder why

For she now forgets all she has ever known

From all possible paths she must now choose her own

And from her choice a universe is born

To contain her materialized temporal form

This new universe is one of a kind

The manifestation of a hypothetical mind

Well, I did anticipate a lack of applause

For what sounds like a violation of laws

It resembles spiritual tripe, I admit

And not anything bordering scientific

I have worked at CERN for most of my life

The Large Hadron Collider, our cosmic knife

It has given sight to our mortal eyes

And has let us probe the cosmic mind

First W and Z bosons, neutrinos later on

Then came the discovery of the Higgs boson

(At the time, what we called the God Particle)

CERN gave us proof of the radical

But none of it compares to what I now reveal

I still ask myself if this can be real

Yet this research has been my purpose in life

It has been me joy, my fear, my strife

Years ago we made the quantum leap

And I use the phrase quite literally

We discovered a way to rip through the foam

And found where these true God Particles roam

By colliding through our material plane

We found this primordial conscious strain

Physicists now realize we must redefine

What we consider to be a sentient mind

These particles, yes, they are alive

They act with purpose, they move with drive

They, in fact, form our thoughts, our consciousness

They are the root of desire and of our own purpose

It sounds like fiction, but so did the atom

Tis the nature of things we are not able to fathom

But I will persist like Copernicus

I will not let truth be ignored or dismissed

So I ask you to keep an open mind

It’s the only way to progress humankind

With that, I conclude my presentation

On my inquiry into quantum fluctuation”