Stephen Hawking – Reith Lectures – Black
Holes
Black holes and Hawking radiation…
I try to explore faith in relation to events and discoveries. After listening to Stephen Hawking I wrote the following text which was sung in Wavertree, Liverpool o 6th February 2016
A spinning vat
of data
a hidden vault
in time,
no solace in
this quantum,
an end to
singing rhyme?
The information
gathered
in each black
hole in space
we cannot grasp
or fathom:
like mystic
freedom’s grace.
Its particles
are virtual,
are neither
seen nor heard,
yet somehow
radiation
escapes - that
seems absurd:
a parallel
dimension
that leaks
across the void
upsetting
mathematics,
those we had
once employed.
And is this
radiation
like spirit
that we sense
the edge of
comprehension
felt in our
present tense
discerned by
those who fathom
the depth of
loving grace,
immersing us in
freedom,
yet outside
time and space?
© Andrew Pratt 2/2/2016
Tune: CRUGER
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