Saturday, December 21, 2019

from Underland by Robert Macfarlane:

Undersight -
he found
the gruffy ground
of Mendip Hills, 
and the Aveline Hole,
full of it.

After ruckled rock,
above
a swallet,
nine barrows, sun,
and Persephone green.

The silver cube in Yorkshire,
down deep,
seeking the star's dark matter.













Doctor Rebecca Elson, dark matter seeker, 
says it's as if
"all there were were fireflies,
and from them you could infer the meadow." .58

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WIMPS weakening interacting massive particles
and neutrinos are called
ghost particles.

Yet to them we, the small percentage of things made of baryonic matter,
are the ghosts and they flow through us endlessly.
"the blue aura left that ghost-struck atom (us, I say to myself, us!) - annihilation's afterglow .59



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"how to weave a net that might catch these quick fish" .58
(subatomic dark matter particles)

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