The poetic city: “On the Apparent Metastability of Quantum Fields”

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On the Apparent Metastability of Quantum Fields

I read today that we owe our existence

to an infinitesimally small particle

in a quantum field that may or may not be stable

and could break down into smaller components

at any moment…

Thus triggering a chain reaction traveling

at light speed and transforming everything

in its path to create an entirely new universe

that may or may not include us….

What’s more, it may already have started

in some distant corner of a faraway galaxy…

But we wouldn’t know it until it gets here

which could be in millions and millions of years

or anytime now…

And all we can do about it is live one day at a time.

Reece Burka

12/10/2021

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