COSMOLOGY: PER CURRENT SCIENCE

PER CURRENT SCIENCE

FIRST BIG BANG

Current science seems to say

Something quite different

May not be as poetic or inspiring,

Which, at least to some people,

And whose details are for many

Rather abstruse and opaque.

But it strikes many others

As reasonable and meaningful.

This  is the current view of Science

Regarding how the World arose:

The cosmos burst forth into a spatial void 

With a steady temporal flow,

That interlinks Space and Time.

Space is container of tangible Matter,

While ceaseless Time is the channel

For constant changes to occur.

This first burst of cosmic birth

Is described by modern science

As a Big Bang that occurred, one reckons,

Thirteen plus billion years ago.

From the cosmic perspective

It was not all that big

Nor a bang that anyone heard.

It was just emergence of Space and Time

Ex nihilo: From nothing.

At the same time there arose

Tangible matter and subtle energy.

Both were at once subject

To inexorable Laws of Nature.

From these arose in the world

A myriad wondrous things

That range from the quite simple

To extremely complex ones.

First came tiny mass-units called quarks,

And along with them leptons

As well as interacting bosons

Which keep the world woven.

The photon and the graviton,

The W, Z and gluons are the cements

That, invisibly and subtly intertwine

And the sustain the physical world.

Quarks and leptons are the matter,

And bosons are the glue

Generating the unseen forces

That keep things from falling apart.

These cause all the twists and turns

Causing  the physical world.

So says the Standard Model.

When the initial primal specks

Of matter and energy emerged

There was absolutely nothing grand

In that new-born primeval universe.